{"id":36841,"date":"2012-04-02T01:02:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T01:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=36841"},"modified":"2012-04-07T21:55:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T21:55:21","slug":"they-are-holding-pandam-collure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/they-are-holding-pandam-collure\/","title":{"rendered":"They Are Holding \u201cPandam\u201d &#8211; Collure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Colombo Telegraph &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36845\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/they-are-holding-pandam-collure\/raja\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36845\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36845\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-36845\" title=\"Raja\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Raja-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Raja-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Raja-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raja Collure<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_36842\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/they-are-holding-pandam-collure\/oldleftist_tissa_div_vasu\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36842\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36842\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36842\" title=\"OldLeftist_Tissa_Div_Vasu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/OldLeftist_Tissa_Div_Vasu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tissa, DEW and Vasu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 3 left parties had a press conference at Dr. NM Perera Centre to talk about Geneva on March 29, 2010. Senior Minister DEW Gunasekara was waiting for his car to come when Raja Collure came. Raja Collure scolded DEW Gunasekara in front of everybody. Raja is the secretary of the Socialist Alliance but he had not been invited to the press briefing. He shouted at DEW and said Ministers are trying to safeguard their positions. \u201cThey are holding \u2018pandam\u2019,I am the secretary but I was not invited\u201d he shouted at DEW Gunasekara in front of everybody.<\/p>\n<p>Related news; \u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Vitarana Plays Foolish\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/vitarana-plays-foolish\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vitarana Plays Foolish<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":36842,"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-36841","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>They Are Holding \u201cPandam\u201d - Collure - 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\/they-are-holding-pandam-collure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"They Are Holding \u201cPandam\u201d - Collure - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/they-are-holding-pandam-collure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-04-02T01:02:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-04-07T21:55:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/OldLeftist_Tissa_Div_Vasu.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"266\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"166\" \/>\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\/they-are-holding-pandam-collure\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/they-are-holding-pandam-collure\/\",\"name\":\"They Are Holding \u201cPandam\u201d - Collure - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/they-are-holding-pandam-collure\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/they-are-holding-pandam-collure\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/OldLeftist_Tissa_Div_Vasu.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-04-02T01:02:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-04-07T21:55:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/they-are-holding-pandam-collure\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/they-are-holding-pandam-collure\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/they-are-holding-pandam-collure\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/OldLeftist_Tissa_Div_Vasu.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/OldLeftist_Tissa_Div_Vasu.jpg\",\"width\":\"266\",\"height\":\"166\",\"caption\":\"Tissa, DEW and Vasu\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/they-are-holding-pandam-collure\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"They Are Holding \u201cPandam\u201d &#8211; 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