{"id":10135,"date":"2020-11-22T03:50:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T03:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10135"},"modified":"2020-11-22T03:50:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T03:50:28","slug":"heated-exchange-in-parliament-as-gajendrakumar-ponnambalam-commemorates-slain-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/heated-exchange-in-parliament-as-gajendrakumar-ponnambalam-commemorates-slain-fighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Heated exchange in Parliament as Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam commemorates slain fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A heated exchange broke out in Parliament yesterday as Tamil National People\u2019s Front (TNPF) leader Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam commemorated slain fighters killed during the war in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ponnambalam commenced his speech during the debate on the 2021 budget by paying respects to those killed while fighting for the rights of the Tamils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Army Commander, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka raised objections to the comments to which Ponnambalam responded by calling him a war criminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fonseka then raised a point of order and objected to being called a war criminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He then called Ponnambalam a terrorist and warned him over his comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ponnambalam continued to accuse the military and the then Government of heinous crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also questioned the failure of the current Government to declare the North and East as a war affected area and protect the people of the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A number of Government Parliamentarians then continued to verbally abuse Ponnambalam over some of the comments he continued to make during his speech in Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heated exchange broke out in Parliament yesterday as Tamil National People\u2019s Front (TNPF)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}