{"id":136738,"date":"2015-01-11T18:35:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=136738"},"modified":"2015-01-16T02:45:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:15:42","slug":"group-of-upfa-mps-join-maithripala-sirisena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/group-of-upfa-mps-join-maithripala-sirisena\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Of UPFA MPs Join Maithripala Sirisena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group of SLFP MPs join the new President Maithripala Sirisena. The 20 member group including Sarath Amunugama,\u00a0Piyasena Gamage, Reginold Coorey, Athauda Seneviratne and\u00a0Chief Minister of North Western Province Dayasiri Jayasekera says Maithripala is the SLFP chairman. Karuna Amman also pledged his support to Maithripala. Duminda Dissanayke was appointed as the SLFP general secretary at a central committee meeting at Sirisena&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile after a SLFP-Mahinda wing central committee meeting with Rajapaksa, the SLFP Secretary Anura Priyadarshana Yapa says 42 members of the SLFP Central Committee\u00a0reaffirmed Mahinda Rajapaksa as SLFP president.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AA-MS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-136743 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AA-MS.jpg\" alt=\"AA MS\" width=\"505\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AA-MS.jpg 505w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AA-MS-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AA-MS1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-136745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AA-MS1.jpg\" alt=\"AA MS1\" width=\"503\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AA-MS1.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AA-MS1-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pics via Azzam Ameen (@AzzamAmeen)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":136745,"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-136738","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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