{"id":45434,"date":"2016-02-27T00:11:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T04:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45434"},"modified":"2016-02-27T00:11:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T04:11:50","slug":"wimal-weerawansa-led-national-freedom-front-will-launch-street-protests-if-govt-goes-ahead-with-etca-agreement-with-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45434","title":{"rendered":"Wimal Weerawansa led National Freedom Front Will Launch Street Protests if Govt Goes Ahead with ETCA Agreement with India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nby Dasun Edirisinghe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Freedom Front (NFF) led by former minister Wimal Weerawansa yesterday said it would take to streets if the government inked the Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) as Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had threatened in Parliament to go ahead with the project regardless of protests.<\/p>\n<p>Weerawsansa said PM Wickremesinghe had threatened all media as well as the major trade unions of the country and condemned PM\u2019s dictatorial stance.<\/p>\n<p> Weerawansa accused Minister Digital Services and Infrastructure Harin Fernando of deploying his thugs to disrupt the peaceful protest by the Government Medical Officers\u2019 Association opposite the Badulla General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> He said today the government had scrapped the fertiliser subsidy and introduced a voucher system, but the farmers had to open a separate bank account to draw the cheque.<\/p>\n<p> Weerawansa alleged that the government had stopped training of the Sri Lanka Air Force over Northern skies giving into pressure of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).<\/p>\n<p> He blamed Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera for misleading the Sri Lankan people and praised the real patriots.<\/p>\n<p> Their political movement would take to streets shortly with supporters of the UNP, who, too, were against the government\u2019s suppression, Weerawansa said.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton45434\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D45434&amp;text=Wimal%20Weerawansa%20led%20National%20Freedom%20Front%20Will%20Launch%20Street%20Protests%20if%20Govt%20Goes%20Ahead%20with%20ETCA%20Agreement...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dasun Edirisinghe The National Freedom Front (NFF) led by former minister Wimal Weerawansa yesterday said it would take to streets if the government inked the Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) as Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had threatened in Parliament to go ahead with the project regardless of protests. Weerawsansa said PM Wickremesinghe had &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Wimal Weerawansa led National Freedom Front Will Launch Street Protests if Govt Goes Ahead with ETCA Agreement with India&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45435,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45434\/revisions\/45435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}