{"id":76330,"date":"2013-03-08T00:03:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T00:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=76330"},"modified":"2013-03-14T07:53:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T07:53:58","slug":"mp-padmasisri-apologises-to-lssp-and-escapes-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mp-padmasisri-apologises-to-lssp-and-escapes-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Padmasisri Apologises To LSSP And Escapes Punishment"},"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=Y.G.+Padmasiri&amp;x=13&amp;y=6\">Y.G. Padmasiri<\/a><\/span>, the Kegalle District MP who violated the decision of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party and voted for the impeachment of Chief Justice <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shirani+Bandaranayake&amp;x=11&amp;y=4\">Shirani Bandaranayake<\/a><\/span> has escaped punishment by apologizing to the Party, Colombo Telegraph understands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76331\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mp-padmasisri-apologises-to-lssp-and-escapes-punishment\/y_g-padmasiri\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76331\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76331\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76331\" title=\"Y_G-Padmasiri\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Y_G-Padmasiri.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-76331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Y.G. Padmasiri<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The LSSP\u2019s Central Committee met last weekend to decide on what action should be taken against MP Padmasiri. While Minister <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Tissa+Vitarana&amp;x=12&amp;y=4\">Tissa Vitarana<\/a><\/span> had proposed that no action be taken, most members had demanded that stern action be taken as this was not the first time Padmasiri had violated party discipline. When the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=18th+Amendment&amp;x=10&amp;y=-1\">18th Amendment<\/a><\/span> was taken up in Parliament, both Vitarana and Padmasiri voted for it against the decision of the LSSP that its MPs should abstain from voting. Both were severely reprimanded by the Party.<\/p>\n<p>Colombo Telegraph learns that Padmasiri had finally asked for forgiveness from the Party. He had stated that he was not like Athauda Seneviratne who joined the SLFP. If expelled, he would apply to re-join the party, Padmasiri had stated. The Central Committee had considered his plea for mercy and warned him severely.<\/p>\n<p>Padmasiri had expected to be appointed a Deputy Minister at the last Cabinet reshuffle as a reward for voting against the LSSP decision but is disappointed that he was not considered, LSSPers from Ruwanwella told Colombo Telegraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":76331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MP Padmasisri Apologises To LSSP And Escapes Punishment - 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\/mp-padmasisri-apologises-to-lssp-and-escapes-punishment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MP Padmasisri Apologises To LSSP And Escapes Punishment - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mp-padmasisri-apologises-to-lssp-and-escapes-punishment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-03-08T00:03:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-03-14T07:53:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Y_G-Padmasiri.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"188\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\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\/mp-padmasisri-apologises-to-lssp-and-escapes-punishment\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mp-padmasisri-apologises-to-lssp-and-escapes-punishment\/\",\"name\":\"MP Padmasisri Apologises To LSSP And Escapes Punishment - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mp-padmasisri-apologises-to-lssp-and-escapes-punishment\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mp-padmasisri-apologises-to-lssp-and-escapes-punishment\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Y_G-Padmasiri.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-03-08T00:03:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-03-14T07:53:58+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mp-padmasisri-apologises-to-lssp-and-escapes-punishment\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mp-padmasisri-apologises-to-lssp-and-escapes-punishment\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mp-padmasisri-apologises-to-lssp-and-escapes-punishment\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Y_G-Padmasiri.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Y_G-Padmasiri.jpg\",\"width\":\"188\",\"height\":\"200\",\"caption\":\"Y.G. 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