{"id":113396,"date":"2013-11-04T20:24:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=113396"},"modified":"2013-11-08T15:50:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T10:20:14","slug":"sajith-rejects-seat-on-unp-leadership-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sajith-rejects-seat-on-unp-leadership-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajith Rejects Seat On UNP Leadership Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sajith+Premadasa&amp;x=6&amp;y=8\">Sajith Premadasa<\/a><\/span>\u00a0the main proponent of reforms to the UNP leadership has refused to sit on the proposed Leadership Council, a solution presented by Buddhist monks affiliated to the party, Colombo Telegraph learns.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_109294\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sajith-employs-delaying-tactics\/sajith-premadasa-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109294\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109294\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-109294\" title=\"Sajith premadasa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sajith-premadasa-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sajith-premadasa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sajith-premadasa-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sajith Premadasa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Premadasa has informed the Working Committee of his rejection of a seat on the Council during the meeting that is currently underway.<\/p>\n<p>The Council will be headed by UNP MP Karu Jayasuriya and include MPs Kabir Hashim, Mangala Samaraweera, Thalatha Athukorale, Ravi Karunananayake, Lakshman Kiriella, Ruwan Wijewardane and Tissa Attanayake, the Colombo Telegraph learns.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting at Sirikotha continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":109294,"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-113396","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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