{"id":164261,"date":"2016-06-23T00:04:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T18:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=164261"},"modified":"2016-06-23T00:46:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T19:16:58","slug":"tilvin-hints-at-a-deal-between-ranil-and-mahinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tilvin-hints-at-a-deal-between-ranil-and-mahinda\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilvin Hints At A \u2018Deal\u2019 Between Ranil And Mahinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General Secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Tilvin+Silva&amp;x=10&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tilvin Silva<\/span><\/a> has accused Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa of striking a deal in an effort to safeguard the former first family and extended family from serious legal action against corrupt deals carried out during the former President\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_151852\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/jvp-welcomes-establishment-of-a-truth-commission-but-not-the-resolution\/tilvin-silva\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-151852\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151852\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-151852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Tilvin-Silva-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tilvin Silva\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Tilvin-Silva-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Tilvin-Silva-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-151852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tilvin Silva<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Silva claimed that the best \u2018deal\u2019 under the current government is between Wickremesinghe and Rajapaksa, where they have both come to an understanding that, while Wickremesinghe will safeguard the Rajapaksa family from serious legal action, all Rajapaksa has to do is to sit out of crucial votes in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe agreement is that whenever there is a crucial vote in Parliament, Mahinda will not be in Parliament to vote against the Government, this is obvious when we take the budget vote and the no confidence vote against Finance Minister, because Mahinda was a visible absentee at both instances, which were crucial events. This is because he has to save the grandsons, the grandmother and everyone else in his family, so instead of voting against the government, he is being absent,\u201d Silva said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo according to the deal, Wickremesinghe will safeguard the Rajapaksa family while Mahinda will sit out of all the crucial votes taken up in parliament,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":151852,"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-164261","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tilvin Hints At A \u2018Deal\u2019 Between Ranil And Mahinda - 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