{"id":54567,"date":"2017-08-10T20:03:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T00:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54567"},"modified":"2017-08-10T20:03:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T00:03:28","slug":"that-was-a-shameless-speech-dinesh-gunawardena-shouts-at-opposition-leader-sampanthan-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54567","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;That was a Shameless Speech&#8221; &#8211; Dinesh Gunawardena Shouts at Opposition Leader Sampanthan in Parliament."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Saman Indrajith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Joint Opposition in Parliament and the MEP, Dinesh Gunawardena, lashed out at the Leader of the Opposition, R Sampanthan, after the latter commended MP Karunanayake. &#8220;That was a shameless speech!&#8221; MP Gunawardana shouted at the leader of the Opposition as the latter was taking his seat after making a statement.<\/p>\n<p>MP Sampanthan praised MP Ravi Karunanayake for resigning from his Ministerial post adding that it was a fundamental right of a person accused of a crime to be presumed innocent till proven guilty.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Soon after MP Gunawardana\u2019s critical remarks, the government MPs were on their feet in protest, shouting at MP Gunawardana.<\/p>\n<p>UNP MP Nalin Bandara Jayamaha, raising a Point of Order charged that MP  Gunawardena had threatened the Opposition leader.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton54567\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D54567&amp;text=%26%238220%3BThat%20was%20a%20Shameless%20Speech%26%238221%3B%20%26%238211%3B%20Dinesh%20Gunawardena%20Shouts%20at%20Opposition%20Leader%20Sampanthan%20in...%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 Saman Indrajith The leader of the Joint Opposition in Parliament and the MEP, Dinesh Gunawardena, lashed out at the Leader of the Opposition, R Sampanthan, after the latter commended MP Karunanayake. &#8220;That was a shameless speech!&#8221; MP Gunawardana shouted at the leader of the Opposition as the latter was taking his seat after making &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54567\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;That was a Shameless Speech&#8221; &#8211; Dinesh Gunawardena Shouts at Opposition Leader Sampanthan 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\/54567"}],"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=54567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54568,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54567\/revisions\/54568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}