{"id":57852,"date":"2018-02-18T23:24:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T04:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57852"},"modified":"2018-02-18T23:24:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T04:24:49","slug":"susil-premajayantha-assures-ex-president-mahinda-rajapaksa-that-15-slfp-ministers-and-mps-including-himself-will-join-opposition-unless-president-sirisena-forms-slfp-only-govt-without-unp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57852","title":{"rendered":"Susil Premajayantha Assures Ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa that 15 SLFP Ministers and MP&#8217;s Including Himself Will Join Opposition Unless President Sirisena Forms SLFP Only Govt Without UNP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> By<br \/>\nNalaka Sanjeewa Dahanayaka<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SLFP National Organizer Minister Susil Premajayantha has informed former President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday (16) that unless the President takes steps to form a government sans members of the UNP by the end of the week, 15 SLFP ministers and parliamentarians including himself would be willing to join the joint opposition.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He gave this promise during a meeting he had with the former president at his official residence at Wijerama Mawatha in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the present &#8216;Yahapalana&#8217; government had lost the people\u2019s mandate and therefore should cease to exist.<\/p>\n<p>In response, former President Rajapaksa had said he would welcome all of them into the fold.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton57852\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D57852&amp;text=Susil%20Premajayantha%20Assures%20Ex-president%20Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%20that%2015%20SLFP%20Ministers%20and%20MP%26%238217%3Bs%20Including...%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 Nalaka Sanjeewa Dahanayaka SLFP National Organizer Minister Susil Premajayantha has informed former President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday (16) that unless the President takes steps to form a government sans members of the UNP by the end of the week, 15 SLFP ministers and parliamentarians including himself would be willing to join the joint opposition.<\/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\/57852"}],"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=57852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57853,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57852\/revisions\/57853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}