{"id":67187,"date":"2020-01-17T00:30:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=67187"},"modified":"2020-01-17T00:30:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:30:15","slug":"52-mps-have-elected-sajith-premadasa-as-unp-leader-pending-working-committee-approval-say-parliamentarians-madduma-bandara-harin-fernando-sarath-fonseka-and-dilip-wedaarachchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=67187","title":{"rendered":"52 MP&#8217;s Have Elected Sajith Premadasa as UNP Leader Pending Working Committee Approval say Parliamentarians Madduma Bandara, Harin Fernando, Sarath Fonseka and Dilip Wedaarachchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Yohan Perera<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fifty two MPs who claimed they have elected Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa as the new leader of the UNP yesterday said they will seek the party\u2019s working committee approval for the new appointment.<\/p>\n<p>UNP MP Ranjith Madduma Bandara told journalists yesterday that they will seek party\u2019s working committee approval for the appointment of Mr Premadasa as the leader.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will seek the approval of the working committee to appoint Mr Premadasa as the new UNP leader and we will begin talks with other parties to form a new alliance to face the General Elections,\u201d Mr Madduma Bandara said.<\/p>\n<p>This situation was confirmed by other MPs including Harin Fernando, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka and Dilip Wedaarachchi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided on the new leader by ourselves as party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe did not nominate Mr Premadasa,\u201d Field Marshal Fonseka said.<\/p>\n<p>He said they will remain as UNP MPs and form a new alliance to contest the General Elections.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton67187\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D67187&amp;text=52%20MP%26%238217%3Bs%20Have%20Elected%20Sajith%20Premadasa%20as%20UNP%20Leader%20Pending%20Working%20Committee%20Approval%20say...%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 The fifty two MPs who claimed they have elected Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa as the new leader of the UNP yesterday said they will seek the party\u2019s working committee approval for the new appointment. UNP MP Ranjith Madduma Bandara told journalists yesterday that they will seek party\u2019s working committee approval for &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=67187\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;52 MP&#8217;s Have Elected Sajith Premadasa as UNP Leader Pending Working Committee Approval say Parliamentarians Madduma Bandara, Harin Fernando, Sarath Fonseka and Dilip Wedaarachchi&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\/67187"}],"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=67187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67188,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67187\/revisions\/67188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}