{"id":54546,"date":"2017-08-10T12:34:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54546"},"modified":"2017-08-10T12:34:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T16:34:55","slug":"i-resign-with-pride-not-wsadness-and-not-under-pressure-declares-ravi-karunanayake-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54546","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Resign With Pride not Sadness and not Under Pressure &#8221;  Declares  Ravi Karunanayake in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The decision to resign from his position of Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka was made with pride and not with sadness or under pressure, Ravi Karunanayake said in Parliament on Thursday August 10th.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Making a special statement, Karnanayake explained that he had no need to purchase properties illegally and said the various allegations leveled against him were baseless.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone knows of my wealth. People from my party and others have visited me in my house. They knew that I do not use my wealth for politics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing parallels to the former government, the parliamentarian said the Attorney General was allowed to investigate ministers now, unlike before. \u201cWe want the authorities to continue their investigations,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have sacrificed my position for democracy and good governance. I am proud of the decision that I have made,\u201d Karunanayake concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake announced that he would resign from the ministerial portfolio.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton54546\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D54546&amp;text=%26%238220%3BI%20Resign%20With%20Pride%20not%20Sadness%20and%20not%20Under%20Pressure%20%26%238221%3B%20%20Declares%20%20Ravi%20Karunanayake%20in%20Parliament&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>The decision to resign from his position of Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka was made with pride and not with sadness or under pressure, Ravi Karunanayake said in Parliament on Thursday August 10th. Making a special statement, Karnanayake explained that he had no need to purchase properties illegally and said the various allegations leveled against &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54546\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;I Resign With Pride not Sadness and not Under Pressure &#8221;  Declares  Ravi Karunanayake 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\/54546"}],"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=54546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54548,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54546\/revisions\/54548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}