{"id":113403,"date":"2013-11-04T22:27:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T16:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=113403"},"modified":"2013-11-08T18:56:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T13:26:01","slug":"i-cant-go-against-buddhist-monks-proposals-sajith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/i-cant-go-against-buddhist-monks-proposals-sajith\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Can&#8217;t Go Against Buddhist Monks Proposals&#8221; &#8211; Sajith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNP MP <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sajith+Premadasa&amp;x=13&amp;y=4\">Sajith Premadasa<\/a><\/span> who has refused a seat on the newly appointed Leadership Council said he was forced to bow out of the nomination he was given by the Working Committee out of respect for the Buddhist monks.<\/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-thumbnail wp-image-108464\" title=\"Sajith\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sajith-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sajith-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sajith-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Premadasa told reporters that the monks had forwarded a 8 point proposal to the UNP leadership and at a special meeting between himself and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Karu+Jayasuriya&amp;x=10&amp;y=6\">Karu Jayasuriya<\/a><\/span> in Kurunegala yesterday they had put forward three more points.<\/p>\n<p>Premadasa said the Working Committee had not adopted the three points put forward by the monks at the Sunday meeting in Kurunegala and added that he could not insult the monks by sitting on the Council.<\/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-113403","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;I Can&#039;t Go Against Buddhist Monks Proposals&quot; 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