{"id":57651,"date":"2018-02-11T22:50:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T03:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57651"},"modified":"2018-02-11T22:50:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T03:50:57","slug":"arumugan-thondaman-ditches-sirisena-after-local-poll-results-to-strike-cwc-slpp-dealceylon-workers-congress-to-rule-11-local-bodies-together-with-sri-lanka-podujana-peramuna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57651","title":{"rendered":"Arumugan Thondaman Ditches Sirisena After Local Poll Results to Strike CWC &#8211; SLPP Deal;Ceylon Workers Congress to Rule 11 Local Bodies  Together With Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) will govern 11 local government bodies in the Nuwara-Eliya District together with the Ceylon Workers\u2019 Congress (CWC), SLPP MP C.B. Rathnayake said yesterday<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>His comments came after attending a public meeting in Hatton with CWC General Secretary Arumugan Thondaman.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He further said it would receive power in the Local Government bodies secured by the United National Party (UNP) with a coalition of SLPP-elected members and the bonus seat receivers.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement by Thondaman was an apparent U-turn as prior to the poll there was an agreement with the President Maithripala Sirisena-led UPFA\/SLFP, with Sirisena himself getting onto the CWC stage during the campaign period in plantation areas. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton57651\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D57651&amp;text=Arumugan%20Thondaman%20Ditches%20Sirisena%20After%20Local%20Poll%20Results%20to%20Strike%20CWC%20%26%238211%3B%20SLPP%20Deal%3BCeylon%20Workers...%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 Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) will govern 11 local government bodies in the Nuwara-Eliya District together with the Ceylon Workers\u2019 Congress (CWC), SLPP MP C.B. Rathnayake said yesterday. His comments came after attending a public meeting in Hatton with CWC General Secretary Arumugan Thondaman.<\/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\/57651"}],"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=57651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57652,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57651\/revisions\/57652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}