{"id":56174,"date":"2017-10-30T22:39:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T02:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=56174"},"modified":"2017-10-31T13:59:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T17:59:52","slug":"97-of-the-people-voted-for-a-new-constitution-at-the-2015-presidential-poll-m-a-sumanthiran-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=56174","title":{"rendered":"97% of the People Voted For a New Constitution at the 2015 Presidential Poll &#8211; M.A.Sumanthiran MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34462\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34462\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34462\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/MAS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M.A. Sumanthiran MP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Speaking at the commencement of the three-day debate on the Constitutional assembly Steering Committee Interim Report, Tamil National Alliance(TNA) Jaffna District Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran pointed out that 97 % of the people had voted for a new Constitution at the 2015 January Presidential elections as the manifestos of both President Maithripala Sirisena as well as Ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa Had specifically stated They were for a new constitution. As such there was a bi-partisan mandate for a new Constitution with 97% of the people voting for it asserted Mr.Sumanthiran<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Following is a You tube clip of Mr. Sumanthiran&#8217;s speech<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bfJByVc-I74\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton56174\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D56174&amp;text=97%25%20of%20the%20People%20Voted%20For%20a%20New%20Constitution%20at%20the%202015%20Presidential%20Poll%20%26%238211%3B%20M.A.Sumanthiran%20MP&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>Speaking at the commencement of the three-day debate on the Constitutional assembly Steering Committee Interim Report, Tamil National Alliance(TNA) Jaffna District Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran pointed out that 97 % of the people had voted for a new Constitution at the 2015 January Presidential elections as the manifestos of both President Maithripala Sirisena as well as &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=56174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;97% of the People Voted For a New Constitution at the 2015 Presidential Poll &#8211; M.A.Sumanthiran MP&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\/56174"}],"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=56174"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56185,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56174\/revisions\/56185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}