{"id":54553,"date":"2017-08-10T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54553"},"modified":"2017-08-10T12:55:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T16:55:44","slug":"why-cant-others-against-whom-there-are-allegations-resign-like-me-asks-ex-minister-ravi-karunanayake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54553","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why Cant Others Against Whom There Are Allegations Also  Resign Like Me&#8221; Asks Ex- Minister Ravi Karunanayake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayake who resigned from his ministerial portfolio today questioned why others, against whom allegations had been made, could not resign if he could do so simply because there were allegations against him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arriving to his residence at Rajamalwatta after the special statement made in Parliament on his resignation, he said he had resigned with pride from his ministerial portfolio to set a good precedent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have made this sacrifice in order to show the innocent people that they could witness a \u2018new dawn\u2019 in future. I am truly grateful for the people who still stand by me even during a difficult phase,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He said they would continue with this government in a positive manner with the leadership of President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said the media institutes had given publicity to him for the past twelve days even more thatn what was given to the President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tolerate all these things. But is it justifiable to do this for my wife and three children?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mr. Karunanayake\u2019s residence was seen crowded with his supporters soon after he made his statement on the resignation<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton54553\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D54553&amp;text=%26%238220%3BWhy%20Cant%20Others%20Against%20Whom%20There%20Are%20Allegations%20Also%20%20Resign%20Like%20Me%26%238221%3B%20Asks%20Ex-%20Minister%20Ravi...%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>Parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayake who resigned from his ministerial portfolio today questioned why others, against whom allegations had been made, could not resign if he could do so simply because there were allegations against him. Arriving to his residence at Rajamalwatta after the special statement made in Parliament on his resignation, he said he had resigned &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54553\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;Why Cant Others Against Whom There Are Allegations Also  Resign Like Me&#8221; Asks Ex- Minister Ravi Karunanayake&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\/54553"}],"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=54553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54555,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54553\/revisions\/54555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}