{"id":57628,"date":"2018-02-11T07:17:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T12:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57628"},"modified":"2018-02-11T07:20:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T12:20:51","slug":"sirisena-led-slfp-faction-divided-after-local-govt-poll-debacleone-group-wants-to-hand-over-party-leadership-to-mahinda-while-others-want-to-re-unite-with-unp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57628","title":{"rendered":"Sirisena Led SLFP Faction Divided After Local Govt Poll Debacle;One Group Wants to Hand Over Party Leadership to Mahinda While Others Want to Re-Unite With UNP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The SLFP ministers representing the unity government are currently holding a discussion with President Maithripala Sirisena on their future course of action. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This comes in a backdrop where the party has suffered a landslide defeat at the Local Government elections 2018. <\/p>\n<p>The discussion is taking place at the Paget Road residence of President Sirisena. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is learnt that some of them are of the opinion that the party should re-unite with the UNP and proceed as the &#8216;January 08&#8217; movement which brought President Sirisena into power.<\/p>\n<p>However, another group is of the view that President Sirisena should offer the SLFP Chairmanship to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Asian Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton57628\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D57628&amp;text=Sirisena%20Led%20SLFP%20Faction%20Divided%20After%20Local%20Govt%20Poll%20Debacle%3BOne%20Group%20Wants%20to%20Hand%20Over%20Party%20Leadership...%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>The SLFP ministers representing the unity government are currently holding a discussion with President Maithripala Sirisena on their future course of action. This comes in a backdrop where the party has suffered a landslide defeat at the Local Government elections 2018. The discussion is taking place at the Paget Road residence of President Sirisena.<\/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\/57628"}],"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=57628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57629,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57628\/revisions\/57629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}