{"id":58884,"date":"2018-04-18T17:55:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T22:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=58884"},"modified":"2018-04-18T17:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T22:55:29","slug":"leader-of-the-opposition-sampanthan-ready-to-face-no-confidence-motion-being-mooted-by-joint-opposition-against-him-for-opposing-ncm-against-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=58884","title":{"rendered":"Leader of the Opposition Sampanthan Ready to Face No Confidence Motion Being Mooted by Joint Opposition Against Him For Opposing NCM Against Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nOpposition Leader R. Sampanthan said that he was prepared to face a no confidence motion, should one be moved against him by the Joint Opposition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Addressing a press conference in Jaffna, Sampanthan said that the Joint Opposition might move a no confidence motion against him, accusing him for voting in favour of the no confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt is neither ethical nor the parliamentary tradition to bring a no confidence motion against an opposition leader. I think that nowhere in the world has an opposition leader faced a no confidence motion\u201d, he said. He further said that if a no confidence motion is brought against him, he was ready to face it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the joint opposition brings a no-confidence motion against me for supporting the Prime Minister, I am ready to face it\u201d, he said. He noted that the national government led by the President and the Prime Minister now should focus on swift constitutional reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy:Daily News<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton58884\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D58884&amp;text=Leader%20of%20the%20Opposition%20Sampanthan%20Ready%20to%20Face%20No%20Confidence%20Motion%20Being%20Mooted%20by%20Joint%20Opposition...%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>Opposition Leader R. Sampanthan said that he was prepared to face a no confidence motion, should one be moved against him by the Joint Opposition. Addressing a press conference in Jaffna, Sampanthan said that the Joint Opposition might move a no confidence motion against him, accusing him for voting in favour of the no confidence &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=58884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Leader of the Opposition Sampanthan Ready to Face No Confidence Motion Being Mooted by Joint Opposition Against Him For Opposing NCM Against Prime Minister&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\/58884"}],"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=58884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58885,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58884\/revisions\/58885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}