{"id":58164,"date":"2018-03-06T18:55:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=58164"},"modified":"2018-03-07T13:26:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T18:26:03","slug":"tna-parliamentarian-ma-sumanthiran-flays-presidentprime-minister-and-cabinet-ministers-for-being-spineless-in-the-face-of-violence-directed-against-numerically-inferior-commuities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=58164","title":{"rendered":"TNA Parliamentarian MA Sumanthiran Flays President, Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers For Being &#8220;Spineless&#8221; in the Face Of Violence Directed Against &#8220;Numerically Inferior Communities&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Addressing the House, Tamil National Alliance Jaffna District Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran accused Government leaders of being &#8220;spineless&#8221; in the face of violence directed against what he called &#8220;numerically inferior communities.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51094\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51094\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MAS-01.27.17-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51094\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-51094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M.A Sumanthiran MP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;If you can&#8217;t stand up for what is right, if you can&#8217;t stand for numerically inferior communities in your country, then you have no right to govern,&#8221; Sumanthiran said. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSumanthiran thanked Chief Opposition Whip Anura Kumara Dissanayake for speaking up for the rights of those from minority communities. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This kind of spine is not there in the Government today. It is not there in the President, the Prime Minister or cabinet ministers,&#8221; he charged. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton58164\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D58164&amp;text=TNA%20Parliamentarian%20MA%20Sumanthiran%20Flays%20President%2C%20Prime%20Minister%20and%20Cabinet%20Ministers%20For%20Being...%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>Addressing the House, Tamil National Alliance Jaffna District Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran accused Government leaders of being &#8220;spineless&#8221; in the face of violence directed against what he called &#8220;numerically inferior communities.&#8221; &#8220;If you can&#8217;t stand up for what is right, if you can&#8217;t stand for numerically inferior communities in your country, then you have no right &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=58164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;TNA Parliamentarian MA Sumanthiran Flays President, Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers For Being &#8220;Spineless&#8221; in the Face Of Violence Directed Against &#8220;Numerically Inferior Communities&#8221;.&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\/58164"}],"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=58164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58200,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58164\/revisions\/58200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}