{"id":7846,"date":"2019-12-27T17:06:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T17:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7846"},"modified":"2019-12-27T17:06:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T17:06:30","slug":"sri-lanka-marxist-party-calls-for-building-a-strong-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-marxist-party-calls-for-building-a-strong-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Marxist party calls for building a strong opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) led National People&#8217;s Power called on public for building a strong opposition at the upcoming general election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Addressing media conference today, the JVP Leader Parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake said the government that was lost to the people could only be influenced by the people if there is a strong opposition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The JVP leader pointed out that the main opposition United National Party (UNP) is in a crisis that cannot be resolved and cannot build a strong opposition. There was no unity in the party after the Presidential election. As such there is a dire need to build a strong opposition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At the news briefing MP Dissanayake called on the Government to take action against the rice mafia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The JVP Leader said in increase in the prices of rice does not at all benefit the farmer, but the rice mafia benefits from it. He explained that there is a monopoly of rice within the market and although the price of paddy has come down, the price of rice had increased.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;The increase in the price of rice is not at all received by the farmer community It is this monopoly that decides the price of paddy in its purchases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said the Government should dismantle the rice monopoly by few millers to overcome the distortion in the price of paddy and rice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) led National People&#8217;s Power called on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7847,"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-7846","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\/7846","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=7846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}