{"id":184087,"date":"2017-11-12T21:13:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=184087"},"modified":"2017-11-13T21:44:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T16:14:47","slug":"sagala-protecting-gamini-senarat-further-sours-unp-slfp-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sagala-protecting-gamini-senarat-further-sours-unp-slfp-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Sagala Protecting Gamini Senarath Further Sours UNP-SLFP Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_8820943150826903009gmail-p2\"><span class=\"m_8820943150826903009gmail-s1\">The current tensions between the United National Party and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party which together make the \u2018Good Governance Government\u2019 were further exacerbated when President Maithripala Sirisena scoffed at the peace-making efforts of three UNP ministers, UNP Chairman Malik Samarawickrema, General Secretary Kabir Hashim and Mangala Samaraweera, charging that Minister of Law and Order and Southern Development had been harbouring former Chief of Staff of former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_157114\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sagala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157114\" class=\"size-full wp-image-157114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sagala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sagala.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sagala-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-157114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sagala Ratnayaka &#8211; Minister of Law &amp; Order<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"m_8820943150826903009gmail-p2\"><span class=\"m_8820943150826903009gmail-s1\">The UNP ministers had met President Sirisena last week to iron out differences in the midst of whispers that the coalition was in danger of imminent collapse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_8820943150826903009gmail-p2\"><span class=\"m_8820943150826903009gmail-s1\">Former President&#8217;s Chief of Staff, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gamini+Senarath\">Gamini Senarath<\/a>, who has been named as a suspects in a case at the Colombo Fort Magistrate\u2019s Court alleging that they had misused Rs.4 billion in government funds, was absconding before appearing in court\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_818030824\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Wednesday<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<span class=\"m_8820943150826903009gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_8820943150826903009gmail-p2\"><span class=\"m_8820943150826903009gmail-s1\">It is reported that intelligence officers who had been watching Senarath\u2019s movements had followed him to Minister Sagala Ratnayaka\u2019s residence in the \u2018salubrious hills of the deep south.\u2019 <strong><em>(By Renuka Jayasinghe)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":157162,"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-184087","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 - 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