{"id":138967,"date":"2015-02-10T01:46:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T20:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=138967"},"modified":"2015-02-18T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T10:14:56","slug":"wimal-wants-mr-to-contest-but-mr-still-undecided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wimal-wants-mr-to-contest-but-mr-still-undecided\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimal Wants MR To Contest But MR Still Undecided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several allies of the UPFA including Wimal Weerawansa&#8217;s National Freedom Front today expressed their intention of fielding former President Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Prime Ministerial candidate at the upcoming general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Those who seem to be working towards building this coalition presently includes Wimal Weerawansa, Vasudeva Nanayakkara, Udaya Gammanpila and Dinesh Gunawardena.<\/p>\n<p>However, UPFA General Secretary Susil Premajayantha said that no such plan has been made with regard to the upcoming polls.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, when questioned about it by the media at the Prison Hospital today MR said he has not received an invitation for such an endeavour still while adding he is unaware of it because he arrived in Colombo straight from his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mahinda-Wimal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-137020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mahinda-Wimal.jpg\" alt=\"Mahinda Wimal\" width=\"638\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mahinda-Wimal.jpg 843w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mahinda-Wimal-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mahinda-Wimal-800x449.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":47762,"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-138967","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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