{"id":9588,"date":"2020-08-21T07:34:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T07:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9588"},"modified":"2020-08-21T07:34:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T07:34:10","slug":"mp-demands-speaker-to-remove-parts-of-wigneswarans-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/mp-demands-speaker-to-remove-parts-of-wigneswarans-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"MP demands Speaker to remove parts of Wigneswaran\u2019s speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Parliamentarian today demanded Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to remove parts of a speech made by former Northern Province Chief Minister C.V Wigneswaran from the hansard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Parliamentarian Manusha Nanayakkara accused Wigneswaran of expressing an opinion which could harm Sri Lanka\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that Wigneswaran took a pledge when entering Parliament to protect Sri Lanka\u2019s sovereignty yet made comments which promoted dividing the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Speaker responded saying he will look into the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his first speech as a Member of Parliament (MP), former Northern Province Chief Minister C.V Wigneswaran yesterday demanded the recognition of Tamil rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that the people living in the North and East have a right to self-determination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wigneswaran also noted that every act will have its opposite reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He repeated the words in Sinhalese saying \u201ckala kala deh pala pala de\u201d drawing a few reactions from the House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wigneswaran expressed these views after congratulating newly appointed Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Parliamentarian today demanded Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to remove parts of a speech&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588","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=9588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}