{"id":193089,"date":"2018-08-31T15:43:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T10:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=193089"},"modified":"2018-09-01T05:37:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T00:07:38","slug":"the-sinhala-majority-must-accept-a-new-constitution-sumanthiran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-sinhala-majority-must-accept-a-new-constitution-sumanthiran\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sinhala Majority Must Accept A New Constitution: Sumanthiran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TNA Parleamentarian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=M.A.+Sumanthiran\">M.A. Sumanthiran<\/a> insisted that nothing short of a new constitution will help resolve issues, even though not all the problems of the Tamil people can be sorted by such a move.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_155852\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/M.A.-Sumanthiran-Colombo-Telegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155852\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-155852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/M.A.-Sumanthiran-Colombo-Telegraph-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/M.A.-Sumanthiran-Colombo-Telegraph-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/M.A.-Sumanthiran-Colombo-Telegraph-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/M.A.-Sumanthiran-Colombo-Telegraph.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-155852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M.A Sumanthiran MP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sumanthiran speaking in Sinhala on the subject of Constitutional Reform in Galle, insisted that the Sinhala majority must accept a new constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In a country with a permanent majority it is important to share powers of governance in such a way that all peoples have equal citizenship rights. Sri Lanka\u2019s Sinhala majority must itself acknowledge injustice of simple majoritarian rule and clamor for reform and justice for other peoples,\u2019 he further stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":180145,"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-193089","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>The Sinhala Majority Must Accept A New Constitution: Sumanthiran - 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\/the-sinhala-majority-must-accept-a-new-constitution-sumanthiran\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Sinhala Majority Must Accept A New Constitution: Sumanthiran - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-sinhala-majority-must-accept-a-new-constitution-sumanthiran\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-08-31T10:13:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-09-01T00:07:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TNA-Spokesman-M.-A.-Sumanthiran.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"577\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"504\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-sinhala-majority-must-accept-a-new-constitution-sumanthiran\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-sinhala-majority-must-accept-a-new-constitution-sumanthiran\/\",\"name\":\"The Sinhala Majority Must Accept A New Constitution: Sumanthiran - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-sinhala-majority-must-accept-a-new-constitution-sumanthiran\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-sinhala-majority-must-accept-a-new-constitution-sumanthiran\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TNA-Spokesman-M.-A.-Sumanthiran.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-08-31T10:13:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-09-01T00:07:38+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-sinhala-majority-must-accept-a-new-constitution-sumanthiran\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-sinhala-majority-must-accept-a-new-constitution-sumanthiran\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-sinhala-majority-must-accept-a-new-constitution-sumanthiran\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TNA-Spokesman-M.-A.-Sumanthiran.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TNA-Spokesman-M.-A.-Sumanthiran.jpg\",\"width\":577,\"height\":504,\"caption\":\"M. 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