{"id":3855,"date":"2018-08-31T13:13:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T13:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2018-08-31T13:13:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T13:13:49","slug":"a-new-constitution-is-a-fundamental-necessity-the-sinhala-majority-should-accept-it-m-a-sumanthiran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/a-new-constitution-is-a-fundamental-necessity-the-sinhala-majority-should-accept-it-m-a-sumanthiran\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Constitution is a fundamental necessity. The Sinhala majority should accept it \u2013 M. A. Sumanthiran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking in Sinhala in Galle All the problems of Tamil People won\u2019t b solved by a new Constitution, but a new Constitution is fundamental. Without this, no issue an be addressed, said TNA Spokesman M. A. Sumanthiran speaking in Sinhala an an event in Galle on Constitutional Reform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking further, he said: In 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka\u2019s Sinhala majority must itself acknowledge injustice of simple majoritarian rule &amp; clamour for reform &amp; justice for other peoples.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There has been a series of meetings in the south on constitutional reforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This was the seventh meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in Sinhala in Galle All the problems of Tamil People won\u2019t b solved&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855","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=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}