{"id":10424,"date":"2021-02-02T05:31:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T05:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10424"},"modified":"2021-02-02T05:31:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T05:31:19","slug":"anthem-only-in-sinhalese-at-independence-day-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/anthem-only-in-sinhalese-at-independence-day-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthem only in Sinhalese at Independence Day event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National anthem will be sung only in Sinhalese and not two languages at the main Independence Day celebrations this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defence Secretary General (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne said the anthem will be sung when President Gotabaya Rajapaksa hoists the National flag at the main event on Thursday, 4th February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former government sang the National anthem in Sinhalese and Tamil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However the current administration sang the anthem only in Sinhalese at the 72nd Independence Day celebrations last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, steps are being taken to amend the Lion in the National flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to a question posed at a virtual media conference, General Gunaratne said that concerns had been raised over some shortcomings in the image of the Lion in the Sri Lanka flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cProposals were made by some people in society over some shortcomings in the Lion image,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">General Gunaratne said that the Home Affairs Ministry has taken the proposals into consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHowever, there is a large process to follow. It will need to be put forward to Parliament for approval,\u201d General Gunaratne added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">General Gunaratne said that the relevant officials are discussing the matter with the Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that very little could be done with the flag ahead of the 73rd Independence Day celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, the existing Sri Lanka flag with the Lion image will be used at the celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, he said the process to make the required changes is underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National anthem will be sung only in Sinhalese and not two languages at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10425,"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-10424","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\/10424","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=10424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}