{"id":108456,"date":"2013-10-02T02:08:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T20:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=108456"},"modified":"2013-10-07T11:28:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T05:58:30","slug":"i-have-nothing-to-learn-from-chandrika-sajith-hits-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/i-have-nothing-to-learn-from-chandrika-sajith-hits-back\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Nothing To Learn From Chandrika: Sajith Hits Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hitting back against remarks made at a press conference by UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake on Monday former UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa says as a member of parliament with 13 years\u00a0 of experience, he has no lessons to learn from the Chandrika Kumaratunga model of politics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/i-have-nothing-to-learn-from-chandrika-sajith-hits-back\/sajith\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-108464\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-108464\" title=\"Sajith\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sajith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>\u201cWhen Chandrika Kumaratunga contested the Provincial Council elections, she was politically naive and had no previous experience. For 13 years I have been a member of parliament voted in by the people. What possible lesson could I have to learn from the Chandrika Kumaratunga model?\u201d Premadasa said in a statement issued to the media yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Attanayake told reporters on Monday that contesting for chief minister of a province could be a good launching pad for a longer political journey, making reference to a recent request by the UNP Matara Working Committee for Premadasa to contest as the UNP\u2019s CM candidate in the soon to be declared Southern Provincial Council elections.<\/p>\n<p>Premadasa said he would rather pursue his political career in his individual style.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no interest in becoming a joke by choosing a wrong model to emulate,\u201d he said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>Premadasa said it was ironic that those who were willing to sacrifice their lives for the party\u2019s success were being told that they did not know how to share in both victory and defeat. \u201cFrom the day I entered active politics in the UNP, there was never much occasion to share victories but we have certainly shared defeats with the people,\u201d the UNP MP said.<\/p>\n<p>He charged that those making allegations against him were also those who had suffered abject defeats in their own elections and have had to enter parliament through the national list. \u201cI have entered on the people\u2019s vote. Not on a piece of paper,\u201d Premadasa charged, in a clear reference to the party General Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said all those who were making suggestions about how he should contest in provincial polls were those who were not interested in UNP victories but in destroying Sajith Premadasa. \u201cAll I have to say to them is that even if they must assassinate or destroy me, please do not destroy the UNP, the party for which I will always have much love,\u201d Premadasa said..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The UNP\u2019s internal battles are raging once more following the party\u2019s massive defeats at the provincial elections and are regularly spilling out into the public domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":108464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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