{"id":61664,"date":"2018-11-13T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61664"},"modified":"2018-11-13T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T01:13:09","slug":"mahinda-rajapaksa-and-maithripala-sirisena-to-form-new-alliance-named-podujana-nidhahas-peramuna-to-contest-elections-scheduled-for-jan-5th-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61664","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Rajapaksa and Maithripala Sirisena to Form New Alliance Named &#8221; Podujana Nidhahas Peramuna&#8221; to Contest Elections Scheduled for Jan 5th 2019."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Maithripala Sirisena and newly-appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa have arrived at an understanding to contest the Parliamentary election as a common alliance under the name &#8220;Nidahas Podujana Peramuna.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The discussion between the two leaders had taken place last night, a day after Rajapaksa and a host MPs relinquished their SLFP membership and joined the Sri Lanka Podujana Party. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The name &#8220;Nidahas Podujana Peramuna&#8221; signifies the alliance between the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. <\/p>\n<p>Asian Mirror learns that the proposal is yet to be presented to the party seniors of the SLPP who will make a final decision on the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Some stalwarts of the SLPP are firmly of the view that the party should contest under their own name, with the flower bud symbol.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Asian Mirror <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton61664\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D61664&amp;text=Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%20and%20Maithripala%20Sirisena%20to%20Form%20New%20Alliance%20Named%20%26%238221%3B%20Podujana%20Nidhahas...%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 and newly-appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa have arrived at an understanding to contest the Parliamentary election as a common alliance under the name &#8220;Nidahas Podujana Peramuna.&#8221; The discussion between the two leaders had taken place last night, a day after Rajapaksa and a host MPs relinquished their SLFP membership and joined the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61664\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Mahinda Rajapaksa and Maithripala Sirisena to Form New Alliance Named &#8221; Podujana Nidhahas Peramuna&#8221; to Contest Elections Scheduled for Jan 5th 2019.&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\/61664"}],"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=61664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61665,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61664\/revisions\/61665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}