{"id":23631,"date":"2024-05-08T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T07:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=23631"},"modified":"2024-05-09T13:42:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T08:12:41","slug":"supreme-court-annuls-diana-gamages-parliament-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=23631","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Annuls Diana Gamage&#8217;s Parliament Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Supreme Court in another landmark judgment today held that State Minister Diana Gamage is disqualified to be a Member of Parliament and is thus not entitled to hold office as a Member of Parliament, as she was not a citizen of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this Supreme Court judgment, Diana Gamage\u2019s disqualification will lead to the loss of her parliamentary seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Supreme Court three-judge-bench comprised Justices Gamini Amarasekara, Kumuduni Wickremasinghe and Janak de Silva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Counsel Hafeel Farisz with Nishika Fonseka and Shannon Thilekaratne appeared for Petitioner Oshala Herath.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-23631' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=23631&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-23631' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-23631' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-23631' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-23631'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-23631' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-23631 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court in another landmark judgment today held that State Minister Diana Gamage is disqualified to be a Member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-smartphones","category-political","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23634,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23631\/revisions\/23634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}