{"id":9638,"date":"2020-08-30T03:54:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T03:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9638"},"modified":"2020-08-30T03:54:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T03:54:50","slug":"gajendrakumar-ponnambalam-hits-back-after-being-advised-to-be-cautious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/gajendrakumar-ponnambalam-hits-back-after-being-advised-to-be-cautious\/","title":{"rendered":"Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam hits back after being advised to be cautious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parliamentarian Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam yesterday hit back after being advised to be cautious on the statements he makes in Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Army Commander and Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Parliamentarian Sarath Fonseka had earlier made reference to Ponnambalam in a speech he made in Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fonseka advised Ponnambalam to be cautious and warned Parliamentarian C.V Wigneswaran saying he will face the same consequences as certain others in the past if he undermines the Sinhalese community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to Fonseka\u2019s statement Ponnambalam said that he is very cautious and measured in what he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ponnambalam also accused Fonseka of saying, when he was Army Commander, that Sri Lanka is a Sinhala tree and others are creepers and crawlers on that Sinhala tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that such a person cannot advise him to be cautious over the statements he makes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ponnambalam also insisted that the North and East cannot compete on equal footing with the rest of Sri Lanka after lagging behind after over 30 years of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that the North and East must be seen separately from the rest of the country and the economy of the people in those areas must be rebuilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliamentarian Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam yesterday hit back after being advised to be cautious on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9639,"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-9638","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\/9638","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=9638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}