{"id":56501,"date":"2017-11-22T23:52:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T04:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=56501"},"modified":"2017-11-22T23:52:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T04:52:16","slug":"dinesh-wants-karu-to-investigate-whether-sujeewa-senasinghe-violated-standing-orders-by-publicly-criticising-president-sirisena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=56501","title":{"rendered":"Dinesh wants Karu To Investigate Whether Sujeewa Senasinghe Violated Standing Orders By Publicly Criticising President Sirisena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Saman Indrajith <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leader of the Joint Opposition (JO) Dinesh Gunawardena, raising a Point of Order, requested Speaker Karu Jayasuriya to investigate and find out whether State Minister Sujeewa Senasinghe\u2019s recent remarks on President amounted to a violation of Standing Orders.<\/p>\n<p>Gunawardena said Senasinghe had, on Tues-day at a press conference, criticized the conduct of President Maithripala Sirisena.<\/p>\n<p>The State Minister declared that he was disappointed with President Sirisena as regards the manner in which the bond scams had been handled.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Speaker Jayasuriya said he would see if the conduct of the President had been criticised through the State Minister\u2019s alleged statement.<\/p>\n<p>Gunawardena said that even though the conduct of the President could not be criticised as per the provisions of Standing Orders 78 Senasinghe had done so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Speaker should look into this matter and give a decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MP Bandula Gunawardena and MP Ranjith Zoysa had also expressed their views on the matter.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton56501\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D56501&amp;text=Dinesh%20wants%20Karu%20To%20Investigate%20Whether%20Sujeewa%20Senasinghe%20Violated%20Standing%20Orders%20By%20Publicly%20Criticising...%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 Leader of the Joint Opposition (JO) Dinesh Gunawardena, raising a Point of Order, requested Speaker Karu Jayasuriya to investigate and find out whether State Minister Sujeewa Senasinghe\u2019s recent remarks on President amounted to a violation of Standing Orders. Gunawardena said Senasinghe had, on Tues-day at a press conference, criticized the conduct of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=56501\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Dinesh wants Karu To Investigate Whether Sujeewa Senasinghe Violated Standing Orders By Publicly Criticising President Sirisena&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\/56501"}],"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=56501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56502,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56501\/revisions\/56502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}