{"id":142166,"date":"2015-04-03T00:11:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=142166"},"modified":"2015-04-03T00:11:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:41:52","slug":"mr-is-suffering-from-raaja-una-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mr-is-suffering-from-raaja-una-harrison\/","title":{"rendered":"MR Is Suffering From Raaja Una: Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister P Harrison has said former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=8&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> is suffering from \u0dbb\u0dcf\u0da2 \u0d8b\u0dab (an obsession with royalty) that cannot be cured by any type of medication.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_142167\" style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Harison-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142167\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Harison-.jpg\" alt=\"Harrison\" width=\"144\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-142167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harrison<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While making these remarks during a press conference held today, the Minister had said MR should take cues from the results of the recent Presidential election and realize that people have in fact rejected him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery other President before him retired \u2013 but he, after holding an arbitrary election even before his term ended \u2013 was voted out by the people. He should realize that the people have rejected him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister went on to say that a few politicians including Wimal Weerawansa, Udaya Gammanpila, Dinesh Gunawardena and Vasudeva Nanayakkara without a political future are the ones who have forced him to attempt to re-enter politics since they are well aware that their future security in politics depends on the survival of MR. \u201cThey have latched on him like leeches and would push MR into more trouble that he already is in,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He had went on to state that MR should take pointers from President Sirisena on how to give up and form former President JR Jayawadena on how to behave like a gentleman after leaving the position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":142167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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