{"id":7685,"date":"2019-12-06T05:56:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T05:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7685"},"modified":"2019-12-06T05:56:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T05:56:20","slug":"dont-nominate-mps-who-insulted-buddhist-monks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/dont-nominate-mps-who-insulted-buddhist-monks\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2019Don\u2019t nominate MPs who insulted Buddhist monks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Tri Nikayika Tharuna Bikkhu Sangamaya &#8211; an organization of young Buddhist monks representing the three chapters yesterday handed over a petition to the UNP leadership requesting the party not to give nominations to those MPs who had insulted Buddhist monks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Convener of the organization Ven. Kotahene Narada Thera told journalists that they decided to come to the UNP headquarters to make this request from the UNP leadership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWe have requested the UNP leadership not to give nominations to MPs Mangala Samaraweera, Ranjan Ramanayake and Rajitha Senaratne who had insulted monks. We also request the UNP leadership not to give nominations to Dr Senaratne who had spoken on behalf of a lady who is working for the Swiss Embassy in Colombo\u201d the Thera said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He noted that UNP Candidate Sajith Premadasa also did not bother to condemn the insults made against monks during the Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cMr Premadasa only issued the statement on Swiss Embassay incident,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tri Nikayika Tharuna Bikkhu Sangamaya &#8211; an organization of young Buddhist monks representing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7686,"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-7685","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\/7685","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=7685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}