{"id":61257,"date":"2018-10-27T04:10:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61257"},"modified":"2018-10-27T04:10:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:10:48","slug":"tna-spokesperson-ma-sumanthiran-mp-says-recent-turn-of-events-is-an-attack-on-the-idea-of-a-national-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61257","title":{"rendered":"TNA  Spokesperson MA Sumanthiran MP  Says Recent Turn of Events is an &#8220;Attack on the Idea of a National Govt&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Meera Srinivasan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Opposition Tamil National Alliance (TNA), an amalgam of parties representing Sri Lanka\u2019s northern Tamils, has expressed disappointment at the recent turn of events, terming it an \u201cattack on the idea of a national government\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Hindu on Saturday, TNA spokesman and Jaffna district parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran said: \u201cThe TNA\u2019s position has always been that the coalition should remain for its full term and perhaps even beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His comment came a day after President Maithripala Sirisena withdrew his party\u2019s support from government, and appointed former President Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister, in place of Ranil Wickremesinghe. However, Mr. Wickremesinghe has claimed he has the majority in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how the TNA \u2014 which has 16 MPs \u2014 might vote in a likely a floor test in the 225-member House, Mr. Sumanthiran said, \u201cWe will act based on our principle that both parties should remain together, in order to solve the national issue. There is no change in that outlook.\u201d Observing that a national [unity] government must continue for Sri Lanka\u2019s 70-year-old \u201cnational question\u201d to be settled, he said, \u201cThat is why we gave this coalition our support, even from the Opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Hindu<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton61257\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D61257&amp;text=TNA%20%20Spokesperson%20MA%20Sumanthiran%20MP%20%20Says%20Recent%20Turn%20of%20Events%20is%20an%20%26%238220%3BAttack%20on%20the%20Idea%20of%20a%20National...%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 Meera Srinivasan The Opposition Tamil National Alliance (TNA), an amalgam of parties representing Sri Lanka\u2019s northern Tamils, has expressed disappointment at the recent turn of events, terming it an \u201cattack on the idea of a national government\u201d. Speaking to The Hindu on Saturday, TNA spokesman and Jaffna district parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran said: \u201cThe TNA\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;TNA  Spokesperson MA Sumanthiran MP  Says Recent Turn of Events is an &#8220;Attack on the Idea of a National Govt&#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\/61257"}],"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=61257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61259,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61257\/revisions\/61259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}