{"id":57872,"date":"2018-02-20T00:57:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T05:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57872"},"modified":"2018-02-20T00:57:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T05:57:12","slug":"mahinda-rajapaksa-now-chides-maithripala-sirisena-for-keeping-ranil-wickremesinghe-as-prime-minister-without-ousting-pm-from-his-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57872","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Rajapaksa Now  Chides  Maithripala Sirisena For Keeping Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister Without Ousting PM from his Post."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former President and MP Mahinda Rajapaksa today said it was none other than President Maithripala Sirisena who keeps Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in his post without ousting him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former president said this in response to a question asked by a journalist when he was leaving Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>When asked his opinion about President Sirisena seeking Attorney General\u2019s opinion on the legality of removing the Premier, Mr. Rajapaksa said \u201cWhy seek AG\u2019s consultations? Shouldn\u2019t forget that the President is the Executive,\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When asked whether it was President Sirisena who continues to protect the Premier, he said \u201cDefinitely, who else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cWe said we will back the SLFP, if it appoints a Prime Minister among them. We won\u2019t back a PM who is a UNPer. It seems the current Prime Minister will continues to function based on the agreement between the UNP and the President,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he said the Joint Opposition has asked for the post of the Opposition Leader in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope we will be given the place we deserve, the Opposition in Parliament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton57872\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D57872&amp;text=Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%20Now%20%20Chides%20%20Maithripala%20Sirisena%20For%20Keeping%20Ranil%20Wickremesinghe%20as%20Prime%20Minister%20Without...%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>Former President and MP Mahinda Rajapaksa today said it was none other than President Maithripala Sirisena who keeps Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in his post without ousting him. The former president said this in response to a question asked by a journalist when he was leaving Parliament. When asked his opinion about President Sirisena seeking &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57872\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Mahinda Rajapaksa Now  Chides  Maithripala Sirisena For Keeping Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister Without Ousting PM from his Post.&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\/57872"}],"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=57872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57873,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57872\/revisions\/57873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}