{"id":48290,"date":"2016-09-05T17:15:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T21:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=48290"},"modified":"2016-09-05T17:15:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T21:15:46","slug":"mahinda-accuses-maithripala-of-betraying-swrd-bandaranaike-philosophy-by-making-slfp-co-govern-with-unp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=48290","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Accuses Maithripala of Betraying SWRD Bandaranaike Philosophy by Making SLFP Co-govern with UNP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Chamodi Gunawardana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Upon returning to Sri Lanka from Malaysia, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday charged that President Maithripala Sirisena had \u201cbetrayed\u201d the Sri Lanka Freedom Party\u2019s (SLFP) strategies by co-governing with the United National Party (UNP) and extending the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to Sirisena\u2019s request to gather around the SLFP to strengthen the party\u2019s roots, Rajapaksa said that as long as the SLFP 02followed the instructions of the UNP, the party could not be strengthened.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cS.W.R.D. Bandaranaike left the UNP and created the SLFP with the thought of not rejoining the UNP. The UNP and SLFP political ideologies have a huge gap that cannot be bridged,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa added that if someone wanted to boost the SLFP they should leave the UNP-SLFP Unity Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have adopted the UNP\u2019s strategies, but the UNP has not reciprocated,\u201d he charged.<\/p>\n<p>A delegation led by Rajapaksa left for Malaysia last Thursday to attend the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) and skipped the SLFP\u2019s 65th convention held on Sunday in Kurunegala at the Maligapitiya Ground. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton48290\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D48290&amp;text=Mahinda%20Accuses%20Maithripala%20of%20Betraying%20SWRD%20Bandaranaike%20Philosophy%20by%20Making%20SLFP%20Co-govern%20with%20UNP&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 Chamodi Gunawardana Upon returning to Sri Lanka from Malaysia, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday charged that President Maithripala Sirisena had \u201cbetrayed\u201d the Sri Lanka Freedom Party\u2019s (SLFP) strategies by co-governing with the United National Party (UNP) and extending the agreement. Responding to Sirisena\u2019s request to gather around the SLFP to strengthen the party\u2019s roots, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=48290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Mahinda Accuses Maithripala of Betraying SWRD Bandaranaike Philosophy by Making SLFP Co-govern with UNP&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\/48290"}],"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=48290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48291,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48290\/revisions\/48291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}