{"id":4551,"date":"2018-11-16T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2018-11-16T13:39:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:39:35","slug":"for-the-first-time-in-sri-lankan-parliamentary-history-the-speaker-karu-jayasuriya-is-forced-to-enter-floor-of-the-house-with-police-escort-for-protection-from-mahinda-rajapaksas-violen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/for-the-first-time-in-sri-lankan-parliamentary-history-the-speaker-karu-jayasuriya-is-forced-to-enter-floor-of-the-house-with-police-escort-for-protection-from-mahinda-rajapaksas-violen\/","title":{"rendered":"For the first time in Sri Lankan parliamentary history, the Speaker ( Karu Jayasuriya) is forced to enter floor of the House with Police escort for protection from (Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s) violent members of parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka\u2019s Parliament, on Friday, passed a No Confidence Motion on the government as Speaker Karu Jayasuriya took a vote under heavy police presence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Speaker, for the first time in Sri Lanka\u2019s history entered the floor of the House, well protected behind hundreds of police officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Parliament session which was expected to start at 1.30 pm, was delayed for over 30 minutes as government legislators had begun a protest surrounding the Speaker\u2019s desk and chair and a government legislator occupying the Speaker\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Government legislators had begun the protest, calling for the immediate arrest of two legislators from the United National Party, for bringing in knives into the Parliament a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Following a tense situation, Speaker Jayasuriya then entered the Floor of the House and hurriedly called for a vote of No Confidence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He initially called for a \u2018vote by name\u2019 but due to severe chaos and violence which erupted, he concluded the vote with a \u2018voice vote\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaker Jayasuriya then announced that the motion had been passed and immediately left the floor, protected by the police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">President Maithripala Sirisena, issuing a statement on his official twitter account, following the Parliamentary session, said he urged all parliamentarians to uphold the principles of democracy and parliamentary traditions at all times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He also said he will not prorogue Parliament under any circumstances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Parliament was adjourned till Nov 19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: News In. Asia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Parliament, on Friday, passed a No Confidence Motion on the government as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4552,"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-4551","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\/4551","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=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}