{"id":66742,"date":"2019-12-15T16:22:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T21:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66742"},"modified":"2019-12-15T16:23:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T21:23:04","slug":"unp-leader-ranil-wickremesinghe-assigns-senior-lawyer-tilak-marapana-with-task-of-recommending-changes-to-party-constitution-regarding-the-post-of-party-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66742","title":{"rendered":"UNP  Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe  Assigns  Senior Lawyer Tilak Marapana  The Task of  Recommending Changes to Party Constitution Regarding the Post of Party Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nUNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has tasked senior party member Tilak Marapana PC with presenting a note on potential changes to the UNP constitution with regard to the post of the party leader by the end of the week. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>UNP sources said this was after party seniors met Wickremesinghe and suggested that changes be brought in to the UNP Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The note is expected to be presented to the party for discussion this week. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile UNP MP Asu Marasinghe told a press conference today that the UNP Leader will give up the leadership after bring unity to the Party.<\/p>\n<p>He added that MP Sajith Premadasa, who has been named the Leader of the Opposition, will be the Party\u2019s prime ministerial candidate and will lead the campaign at the upcoming General Election.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton66742\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D66742&amp;text=UNP%20%20Leader%20Ranil%20Wickremesinghe%20%20Assigns%20%20Senior%20Lawyer%20Tilak%20Marapana%20%20The%20Task%20of%20%20Recommending%20Changes%20to...%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>UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has tasked senior party member Tilak Marapana PC with presenting a note on potential changes to the UNP constitution with regard to the post of the party leader by the end of the week. UNP sources said this was after party seniors met Wickremesinghe and suggested that changes be brought in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66742\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;UNP  Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe  Assigns  Senior Lawyer Tilak Marapana  The Task of  Recommending Changes to Party Constitution Regarding the Post of Party Leader&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\/66742"}],"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=66742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66744,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66742\/revisions\/66744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}