{"id":54752,"date":"2017-08-21T21:46:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T01:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54752"},"modified":"2017-08-21T21:46:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T01:46:44","slug":"president-and-prime-minister-hold-urgent-late-night-meeting-to-discuss-wijeyadasa-rajapakshes-defiant-stand-of-neither-apologizing-nor-resigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54752","title":{"rendered":"President and Prime Minister Hold Urgent Late Night Meeting to Discuss Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe&#8217;s Defiant Stand of Neither Apologizing Nor Resigning."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Zacki Jabbar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and President Maithripala Sirisena had an emergency meeting last night following a government parlimentary group meeting at Temple Trees.<\/p>\n<p>Government sources said some MPs had taken up the issue of Justice and Buddha Sasana Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe vilolating collective Cabinet responsibility by publicly criticising the Hambantota Port agreement with China.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, answering queries from the MPs on Wijeyadasa\u2019s conduct, said that though he (Wijeyadasa) had been given time till yesterday to respond to allegations against him, he had not complied.<\/p>\n<p>Wijeyadasa was not present at yesterday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said some MPs had demanded to know what action the UNP would take against Rajapakshe.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton54752\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D54752&amp;text=President%20and%20Prime%20Minister%20Hold%20Urgent%20Late%20Night%20Meeting%20to%20Discuss%20Wijeyadasa%20Rajapakshe%26%238217%3Bs%20Defiant...%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 Zacki Jabbar Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and President Maithripala Sirisena had an emergency meeting last night following a government parlimentary group meeting at Temple Trees. Government sources said some MPs had taken up the issue of Justice and Buddha Sasana Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe vilolating collective Cabinet responsibility by publicly criticising the Hambantota Port agreement &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54752\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;President and Prime Minister Hold Urgent Late Night Meeting to Discuss Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe&#8217;s Defiant Stand of Neither Apologizing Nor Resigning.&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\/54752"}],"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=54752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54753,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54752\/revisions\/54753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}