{"id":54518,"date":"2017-08-08T01:02:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T05:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54518"},"modified":"2017-08-08T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T20:39:00","slug":"both-maithripala-and-ranil-ask-ravi-karunanayake-to-resign-as-minister-instead-of-facing-vote-of-no-confidence-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54518","title":{"rendered":"Both  Maithripala and Ranil  Want  Ravi Karunanayake to Resign as Minister Instead of Facing  Vote of No Confidence in Parliament."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Kelum Bandara<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the face of a no-confidence motion against Foreign Affairs Minister Ravi Karunanayake, the government is reported to be urging him to step down rather than face defeat in a vote.<\/p>\n<p>After the motion was handed over by the joint opposition, government members of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) decided to vote in favour of the motion seeking to unseat the minister while a section of the United National Party (UNP) had also decided not to support him if it came to a vote.<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, government leaders believe that it would be humiliating to the entire government if the minister was unseated through a parliamentary process.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nInformed sources said both President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had asked the minister to resign.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has called for a party leaders\u2019 meeting today to discuss future business of the House. JO parliamentary group leader Dinesh Gunawardane said he would seek a date at today\u2019s meeting to debate the no-confidence motion against Minister Karunanayake.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to reports the government is determined to push the minister to resign without leaving room for a vote on the motion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton54518\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D54518&amp;text=Both%20%20Maithripala%20and%20Ranil%20%20Want%20%20Ravi%20Karunanayake%20to%20Resign%20as%20Minister%20Instead%20of%20Facing%20%20Vote%20of%20No...%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 Kelum Bandara In the face of a no-confidence motion against Foreign Affairs Minister Ravi Karunanayake, the government is reported to be urging him to step down rather than face defeat in a vote. After the motion was handed over by the joint opposition, government members of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) decided to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54518\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Both  Maithripala and Ranil  Want  Ravi Karunanayake to Resign as Minister Instead of Facing  Vote of No Confidence in Parliament.&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\/54518"}],"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=54518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54520,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54518\/revisions\/54520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}