{"id":191134,"date":"2018-06-05T14:33:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T09:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=191134"},"modified":"2018-06-05T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T09:03:06","slug":"vice-chairmanship-of-unp-never-in-my-wildest-dreams-did-i-expect-it-mangala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/vice-chairmanship-of-unp-never-in-my-wildest-dreams-did-i-expect-it-mangala\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Vice Chairmanship Of UNP: Never In My Wildest Dreams Did I Expect It&#8221; &#8211; Mangala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mangala+Samaraweera\">Mangala Samaraweera<\/a>, upon receiving a letter from UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe appointing him as Vice Chairman, has said that it was not something he had expected.<\/p>\n<p>He has tweeted that when he was appointed the SLFP Organizer for Matara 30 years ago he had not even in his wildest dreams thought that he would one day be appointed to such a position in &#8216;the grand old party&#8217;.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mangala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-191135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mangala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"783\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mangala.jpg 783w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mangala-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mangala-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mangala-669x1024.jpg 669w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":184444,"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-191134","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>&quot;Vice Chairmanship Of UNP: Never In My Wildest Dreams Did I Expect It&quot; 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