{"id":67184,"date":"2020-01-16T19:41:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=67184"},"modified":"2020-01-16T19:41:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:41:30","slug":"ranil-and-his-loyalists-including-vajira-sagala-and-akila-viraj-walk-out-of-unp-parliamentary-group-meeting-after-sajith-faction-calls-for-vote-to-elect-party-leader-remaining-52-mps-favoured-pre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=67184","title":{"rendered":"Ranil and his Loyalists Including Vajira, Sagala and Akila Viraj Walk Out of UNP  Parliamentary Group Meeting After Sajith Faction Calls For Vote to Elect Party Leader; Remaining 52 MP&#8217;s Favoured Premadasa in Unofficial Vote Tweets Harsha de Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Yohan Perera<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UNP Parliamentary Group meeting which was held today at its Headquarters Sirikotha ended up abruptly without a decision as to who would become the next leader of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Informed sources said some members wanted a vote to decide on the leadership but several including Party Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, Vajira Abeywardene, General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam and Sagala Ratnayake had staged a walk out opposing the vote.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Others who remained had conducted an unofficial vote where majority had wanted Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa as the UNP leader.<\/p>\n<p>MP Harsha De Silva in a tweet said the meeting ended abruptly as majority asked for a leadership vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeneral Secretary and others went out of the meeting while others who remained conducted a vote to make Sajith Premadasa the leader. All 52 members present voted in favour of Mr. Premadasa,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, UNP National Organizer Navin Dissanayake and General Secretary Kariyawasam said Party Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya and Mr. Premadasa will meet next week to come to a final decision. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton67184\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D67184&amp;text=Ranil%20and%20his%20Loyalists%20Including%20Vajira%2C%20Sagala%20and%20Akila%20Viraj%20Walk%20Out%20of%20UNP%20%20Parliamentary%20Group%20Meeting...%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 Yohan Perera UNP Parliamentary Group meeting which was held today at its Headquarters Sirikotha ended up abruptly without a decision as to who would become the next leader of the party. Informed sources said some members wanted a vote to decide on the leadership but several including Party Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, Vajira Abeywardene, General &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=67184\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Ranil and his Loyalists Including Vajira, Sagala and Akila Viraj Walk Out of UNP  Parliamentary Group Meeting After Sajith Faction Calls For Vote to Elect Party Leader; Remaining 52 MP&#8217;s Favoured Premadasa in Unofficial Vote Tweets Harsha de Silva&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\/67184"}],"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=67184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67185,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67184\/revisions\/67185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}