{"id":54980,"date":"2017-09-04T04:10:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T08:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54980"},"modified":"2017-09-04T04:10:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T08:10:37","slug":"mahinda-rajapaksa-says-neither-he-nor-joint-opposition-mps-were-invited-for-slfp-66th-party-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54980","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Rajapaksa Says Neither he Nor Joint Opposition MP&#8217;s Were Invited for SLFP 66th Party Convention."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Krishan Pathirath Jayasuriya<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said he has not been invited to the 66th Convention of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).<\/p>\n<p>He revealed this at a function held on Wednesday (30) at the Kotte Rajamaha Viharaya, to hand over the post of Chief Sanghanayake of North America to Ven. Aluthnuwara Sumanatissa Thera.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Former Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa, former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and former Minister of Justice and Buddha Sasana, Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe were present.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by the media whether he had been invited for the SLFP&#8217;s 66th Convention, he answered &#8220;No, I have not received any invitation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, when it was pointed out that he had been asked to attend, he said &#8220;No one spoke to me. Not only me, none of the others in the Joint Opposition have been invited.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCOURTESY:cEYLON TODAY<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton54980\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D54980&amp;text=Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%20Says%20Neither%20he%20Nor%20Joint%20Opposition%20MP%26%238217%3Bs%20Were%20Invited%20for%20SLFP%2066th%20Party%20Convention.&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 Krishan Pathirath Jayasuriya Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said he has not been invited to the 66th Convention of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). He revealed this at a function held on Wednesday (30) at the Kotte Rajamaha Viharaya, to hand over the post of Chief Sanghanayake of North America to Ven. Aluthnuwara Sumanatissa &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54980\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Mahinda Rajapaksa Says Neither he Nor Joint Opposition MP&#8217;s Were Invited for SLFP 66th Party Convention.&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\/54980"}],"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=54980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54981,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54980\/revisions\/54981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}