{"id":61522,"date":"2018-11-07T03:30:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T07:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61522"},"modified":"2018-11-07T04:13:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T08:13:10","slug":"tna-defector-viyalendran-mp-who-joined-govt-on-request-made-by-president-maithripala-sirisena-says-this-does-not-mean-i-support-prime-minister-mahinda-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61522","title":{"rendered":"TNA Defector Viyalendran MP who Joined Govt on Request Made By President Maithripala Sirisena says \u201cThis does not mean I support Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Lahiru Pothmulla<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>United National Party (UNP) Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe failed to serve the Tamil people though the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) stood by him for more than three years, Deputy Minister of Regional Development (Eastern) S. Viyalendiran said today.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a media briefing held at the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, he said the North and East should be developed first and then they can focus on finding solutions to the national question.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Eastern Province was ignored during the Ranil Wickremesinghe-led government. The Northern and Western Provinces have development ministries but the Eastern Province does not. Therefore, I requested the President to appoint me as the Development Minister for the Eastern region,\u201d Viyalendiran said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>He said though there was a project to build 50,000 housing units in the North, not a single unit was built during the previous government\u2019s tenure and said he joined the government on a request made by President Maithripala Sirisena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis does not mean I support Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa,\u201d he said. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton61522\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D61522&amp;text=TNA%20Defector%20Viyalendran%20MP%20who%20Joined%20Govt%20on%20Request%20Made%20By%20President%20Maithripala%20Sirisena%20says%20%E2%80%9CThis...%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 Lahiru Pothmulla United National Party (UNP) Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe failed to serve the Tamil people though the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) stood by him for more than three years, Deputy Minister of Regional Development (Eastern) S. Viyalendiran said today. Addressing a media briefing held at the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, he said the North and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61522\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;TNA Defector Viyalendran MP who Joined Govt on Request Made By President Maithripala Sirisena says \u201cThis does not mean I support Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa&#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\/61522"}],"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=61522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61523,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61522\/revisions\/61523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}