{"id":165790,"date":"2016-07-26T17:08:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T11:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=165790"},"modified":"2016-07-27T00:59:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T19:29:53","slug":"maithri-threatens-joint-opposition-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/maithri-threatens-joint-opposition-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"Maithri Threatens Joint Opposition MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Maithripala Sirisena <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sirisena-calls-for-urgent-meeting-with-joint-opposition-mps-ahead-of-pada-yatra\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">who summoned an urgent meeting last evening<\/span><\/a> with MPs of the joint opposition declared that if any member continues to contravene party decisions and work in an unacceptable manner, they will be removed from their organization positions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/maithri-lambasts-divaina-for-inflammatory-journalism-reiterates-his-stand-against-foreign-judges\/maithripala-sirisena-10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-165002\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-165002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Maithripala-Sirisena-.jpg\" alt=\"Maithripala Sirisena\" width=\"638\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Maithripala-Sirisena-.jpg 638w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Maithripala-Sirisena--300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a>Speaking to the MPs further, Sirisena had said that there was going to be a shuffle within the party before the next local elections, and if any member of the SLFP was found working against the party, then they will be removed from their organization positions and replaced with new members.<\/p>\n<p>Sirisena had however not explicitly opposed the Joint Opposition mooted Pada Yatra which is set to kick off on July 28 from Kandy and reach Colombo on August 1. But members of the Joint Opposition said that the sudden meeting was an indirect warning to them. However despite Sirisena\u2019s warning, the anti-government walk is expected to go ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":165002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","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>Maithri Threatens Joint Opposition MPs - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/maithri-threatens-joint-opposition-mps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maithri Threatens Joint Opposition MPs - 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