{"id":7558,"date":"2019-11-20T09:12:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7558"},"modified":"2019-11-20T09:12:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:12:22","slug":"unp-denies-claims-it-failed-to-fully-back-sajiths-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/unp-denies-claims-it-failed-to-fully-back-sajiths-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"UNP denies claims it failed to fully back Sajith\u2019s campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The United National Party (UNP) today denied claims that it had not fully backed the Presidential election campaign of New Democratic Front Presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">UNP General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said that the UNP has taken note of comments made by UNP Parliamentarian Nalin Bandara.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Bandara had accused the party of failing to fully back the election campaign of Premadasa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Kariyawasam said that the election campaign was handled from the campaign office established in Colombo which was headed by former UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">He said that all the support required by the campaign office was provided by the UNP Headquarters in Sirikotha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Kariyawasam insisted that during the campaign concerns had never been raised of lack of support from the party for the campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United National Party (UNP) today denied claims that it had not fully backed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7559,"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-7558","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\/7558","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=7558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}