{"id":65359,"date":"2019-08-22T19:38:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T23:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=65359"},"modified":"2019-08-22T19:38:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T23:38:02","slug":"mahinda-rajapaksa-says-a-split-in-the-unp-is-inevitable-regardless-of-who-the-presidential-candidate-is-because-a-group-of-persons-in-the-party-dont-respect-the-party-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=65359","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Rajapaksa Says a Split in the UNP is Inevitable Regardless of who the Presidential Candidate Is Because a Group of Persons in the Party Dont Respect the Party Leadership."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> By<\/p>\n<p>Lahiru Pothmulla<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa today claimed it is inevitable that the United National Party (UNP) will be split irrespective of who becomes the party&#8217;s nominee at the upcoming presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed these views at a meeting held with the heads of the local government bodies controlled by the SLPP at its Head office in Battaramulla, Colombo.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mr.Rajapaksa said if a party member doesn\u2019t respect the party leadership, he could not continue to work under the same leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, there is a team of people within the UNP, who don\u2019t respect the party leadership . Regardless of the candidate the UNP will field, their intra-party conflict will continue to intensify the dispute,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said even if the troika of Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sajith Premadasa and Karu Jayasuriya all contested the election, the people had already decided to ensure the SLPP\u2019s victory at the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton65359\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D65359&amp;text=Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%20Says%20a%20Split%20in%20the%20UNP%20is%20Inevitable%20Regardless%20of%20who%20the%20Presidential%20Candidate%20Is...%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 Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa today claimed it is inevitable that the United National Party (UNP) will be split irrespective of who becomes the party&#8217;s nominee at the upcoming presidential election. He expressed these views at a meeting held with the heads of the local government bodies controlled by the SLPP at its &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=65359\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Mahinda Rajapaksa Says a Split in the UNP is Inevitable Regardless of who the Presidential Candidate Is Because a Group of Persons in the Party Dont Respect the Party Leadership.&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\/65359"}],"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=65359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65360,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65359\/revisions\/65360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}