{"id":62172,"date":"2012-11-28T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T09:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=62172"},"modified":"2012-11-30T01:08:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T01:08:10","slug":"faizer-sends-father-faiz-to-meet-cj-and-offer-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/faizer-sends-father-faiz-to-meet-cj-and-offer-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Faizer Sends Father Faiz To Meet CJ And Offer Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Faizer+Mustapha+&amp;x=11&amp;y=0\">Faizer Mustapha<\/a><\/span>, Deputy Minister, who is in the forefront of the impeachment process has got his father, Faiz Mustapha, senior President\u2019s Counsel to meet the Chief Justice <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shirani+Bandaranayake&amp;x=13&amp;y=8\">Shirani Bandaranayake<\/a><\/span> and offer her \u201call support\u201d Hultsdorf sources told Colombo Telegraph.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62173\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/faizer-sends-father-faiz-to-meet-cj-and-offer-support\/faizermusthafa\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62173\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62173\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62173\" title=\"FaizerMusthafa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/FaizerMusthafa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy Minister Faizer Mustapha,<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to our sources, Faiz Mustapha has met the Chief Justice at 11.00 am on Thursday, 22 November in her chambers and offered to support any application that is filed against the impeachment. It may be recalled that when Chief Justice <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sarath+N.+Silva&amp;x=13&amp;y=7\">Sarath Silva<\/a><\/span> was impeached, Faiz Mustapha appeared for 3 lawyers of the People\u2019s Alliance and obtained a stay order against Speaker <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Anura+Bandaranaike&amp;x=9&amp;y=5\">Anura Bandaranaike<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 Hultsdorf sources said that Deputy MInsiter Faizer Mustapha is worried about the information that has leaked that he and Deputy Speaker Chandima Weerakkody are the main people doing the dirty work related to the impeachment. They are supported by Kalinga Indratissa and Priyantha Jayawardena, who along with Faizer Mustapha were appointed President\u2019s Counsel recently.<\/p>\n<p>Faiszer Mustapha first entered Parliament through the Ceylon Workers Congress led by Arumugam Thondaman but crossed over to the UNP later. At the 2005 Presidential elections, Faizer Mustapha supported <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ranil+Wickremesinghe&amp;x=4&amp;y=5\">Ranil Wickramasinghe<\/a><\/span> but crossed over to the UPFA \u201cstrengthen the hands of the President.\u201d He is widely expected to return to the UNP if it is clear that the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=9&amp;y=7\">Mahinda Rajapaks<\/a>a<\/span>\u00a0regime is in danger falling. Lawyers say that Faizer Mustapha is a good political weather-cock and that the fact that he sent his father Faiz Mustapha to meet the Chief Justice shows where the wind is blowing.<\/p>\n<p>The Colombo Telegraph has been unable to reach\u00a0Faiz Mustapha or Faizer Mustapha for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":62173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375],"tags":[6020,6725],"class_list":["post-62172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories","tag-impeachment-motion-against-chief-justice-shirani-bandaranayake","tag-impeachment-motion-against-chief-justice-shirani-bandaranayake-and-faizer-mustapha-and-faiz-mustapha"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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