{"id":78070,"date":"2022-06-17T00:18:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T04:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=78070"},"modified":"2022-06-17T20:17:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T00:17:16","slug":"there-is-growing-animosity-between-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-and-prime-minister-ranil-wickremesinghe-says-ex-president-maithripala-sirisena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=78070","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There is growing animosity between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe&#8221; says EX-President Maithripala Sirisena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>.By<\/p>\n<p>Sandun A Jayasekera<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former President Maithripala Sirisena said there is growing animosity between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe like a rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was similar to the rivalry between him as the president and Mr. Wickremesinghe as the prime minister at that time.<br \/>\nIt was quite clear that there was no coordination, mutual understanding or unity between the two and that was why the Gotabaya Rajapakse \u2013 Ranil Wickremesinghe rule has become a total failure, dragging the country and its 22 million people into an unfathomable abyss, he added.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Addressing the media at the party office last morning, Mr. Sirisena said the President and Prime Minister had made it a habit now to call meetings separately of public officers, representatives of the private sector and trade unions and issue instructions.<br \/>\n\u201cThough utterly failed in their performance, they keep advising all and sundry in a challenging manner to each other and sometimes it seems the two are engaged in a competition attempting to beat each other,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sirisena reiterated that the most pragmatic and timely solution to the current economic, political and social mess in the country was to form an all-party government as agreed upon by President Rajapakse and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe after passing the 20th Amendment to the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton78070\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D78070&amp;text=%26%238220%3BThere%20is%20growing%20animosity%20between%20President%20Gotabaya%20Rajapaksa%20and%20Prime%20Minister%20Ranil...%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 Sandun A Jayasekera Former President Maithripala Sirisena said there is growing animosity between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe like a rivalry. He said it was similar to the rivalry between him as the president and Mr. Wickremesinghe as the prime minister at that time. It was quite clear that there was &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=78070\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;There is growing animosity between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe&#8221; says EX-President Maithripala Sirisena&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\/78070"}],"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=78070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78071,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78070\/revisions\/78071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}