{"id":134679,"date":"2014-12-11T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T08:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=134679"},"modified":"2014-12-18T04:13:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T22:43:11","slug":"gammanpila-rejoins-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gammanpila-rejoins-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Gammanpila Rejoins The Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy General Secretary of the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Udaya+Gammanpila&amp;x=9&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Udaya Gammanpila<\/span><\/a> who left the coalition government few weeks ago along with other members of his party to support common Opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena, re-joined the government as he announced his decision at a media briefing in Colombo a short while ago.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_103071\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Udaya-Gammanpila.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103071\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-103071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Udaya-Gammanpila-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Udaya Gammanpila\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Udaya-Gammanpila-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Udaya-Gammanpila-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Udaya Gammanpila<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gammanpila said he spent two sleepless nights contemplating on his decision because right from the beginning he had no wish to work in collaboration with former president Chandrika Kumaratunga and Opposition leader, Ranil Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n<p>He said he will quit the JHU and support President Rajapaksa\u2019s victory independently since he does not represent the will of the majority in his party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":103071,"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-134679","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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