{"id":79628,"date":"2022-09-21T00:45:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T04:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=79628"},"modified":"2022-09-21T20:40:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T00:40:50","slug":"itak-president-maavai-senathirajah-refutes-media-reports-of-party-pressure-being-exerted-on-tna-leader-sampanthan-to-resign-as-trinco-mp-we-have-not-taken-any-decision-nor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=79628","title":{"rendered":"ITAK President \u201cMaavai\u201d Senathirajah Refutes Media Reports of Party Pressure being Exerted on TNA Leader  Sampanthan to Resign as Trinco MP; \u201cWe have not taken any decision nor do we request our Leader to resign. We cannot remove him either,\u201d  says  Maavai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nBY Mirudhula Thambiah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Denying news reports to the contrary, Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) Leader Mavai Senathirajah yesterday (21) said that the party has not taken any decision nor requested the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Leader and Trincomalee District MP R. Sampanthan to resign from his Parliamentary seat.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Morning yesterday, Senathirajah noted that no such request had been made from Sampanthan, nor had such a decision been taken for the latter to resign from his post as an MP.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have not taken any decision nor do we request our Leader to resign. We cannot remove him either,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Senathirajah noted that Sampanthan had been very keen in addressing the proposed demographic changes in Trincomalee and as a measure, had decided to write a letter to the authorities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe held our Central Committee meeting in Vavuniya on Tuesday (20), where some party members addressed the issue of the change in the demography of Trincomalee. We did not discuss any removal or resignation. The media has twisted the story,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned that the ITAK will separately send a letter to President Ranil Wickremesinghe urging him to stop the proposed demographic changes and land acquisition at the Trincomalee Koneswaram Temple. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a letter signed by leaders of political parties in the North and the East was handed over to President Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The  Morning<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton79628\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D79628&amp;text=ITAK%20President%20%E2%80%9CMaavai%E2%80%9D%20Senathirajah%20Refutes%20Media%20Reports%20of%20Party%20Pressure%20being%20Exerted%20on%20TNA%20Leader%20...%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 Mirudhula Thambiah Denying news reports to the contrary, Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) Leader Mavai Senathirajah yesterday (21) said that the party has not taken any decision nor requested the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Leader and Trincomalee District MP R. Sampanthan to resign from his Parliamentary seat. Speaking to The Morning yesterday, Senathirajah noted &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=79628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;ITAK President \u201cMaavai\u201d Senathirajah Refutes Media Reports of Party Pressure being Exerted on TNA Leader  Sampanthan to Resign as Trinco MP; \u201cWe have not taken any decision nor do we request our Leader to resign. We cannot remove him either,\u201d  says  Maavai&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\/79628"}],"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=79628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79629,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79628\/revisions\/79629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}