{"id":61629,"date":"2018-11-13T01:04:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T05:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61629"},"modified":"2018-11-13T01:04:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T05:04:25","slug":"president-sirisena-should-know-the-amounts-paid-to-mps-for-crossing-over-because-he-bought-several-mps-from-the-unp-and-tna-ranil-hits-back-strongly-against-maithripala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61629","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;President Sirisena  Should Know the Amounts Paid to MP&#8217;s for Crossing Over Because he Bought Several MP&#8217;s from the UNP and TNA &#8221; -Ranil Hits Back strongly Against Maithripala."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Maithripala Sirisena should know well the amounts MPs got for crossing over because he had bought several UNP and TNA MPs, UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday issuing a statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because of this horse trading the public faith in MPs has hit an all-time low. It is very unfortunate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Although the President said he had dissolved the parliament because he feared bloodshed if it convened in the given context, no one had been assassinated inside the Parliament building anywhere in the world, the UNP leader said adding that the President had also disrespected the Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Speaker is in charge of administering Parliament. He protects standing orders and traditions. If President had any information about the possible assassination of MPs, he should have informed the Speaker. Instead of doing that, the President has taken a dictatorial decision,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wickremesinghe said the decisions taken by the President since October 26 have destroyed the country\u2019s international reputation. The UNP was preparing to build a broad people\u2019s movement to save the country from the disasters inflicted upon it by the actions of Sirisena.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will go before the people in a novel way. A lot of young people are angry and scared. We will wipe away these fears and introduce a new constitution that will strengthen democracy,&#8221; Wickremesinghe said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton61629\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D61629&amp;text=%26%238220%3BPresident%20Sirisena%20%20Should%20Know%20the%20Amounts%20Paid%20to%20MP%26%238217%3Bs%20for%20Crossing%20Over%20Because%20he%20Bought...%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>President Maithripala Sirisena should know well the amounts MPs got for crossing over because he had bought several UNP and TNA MPs, UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday issuing a statement. &#8220;Because of this horse trading the public faith in MPs has hit an all-time low. It is very unfortunate.&#8221;<\/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\/61629"}],"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=61629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61630,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61629\/revisions\/61630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}