{"id":12217,"date":"2022-11-20T09:34:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T09:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=12217"},"modified":"2022-11-20T09:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T09:34:39","slug":"basil-rajapaksa-returns-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/basil-rajapaksa-returns-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Basil Rajapaksa returns to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minister and SLPP national organiser Basil Rajapaksa has arrived in Sri Lanka this morning (Nov 20), according to Ada Derana reporter.<\/p>\n<p>He had returned to the island this morning after spending around one and half months in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Basil Rajapaksa, who holds dual citizenship, had left the country following the protest movement against former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p>General Secretary of\u00a0 Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Sagara Kariyawasam stated that they hope to implement the party\u2019s plans for upcoming elections with the arrival of Basil Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, MP Jagath Kumara mentioned that making decisions regarding the leadership of SLPP is a duty of former MP Basil Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the SLPP stressed that it will take legal action against the false propaganda made through social media.<\/p>\n<p>Former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse has reportedly given related instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minister and SLPP national organiser Basil Rajapaksa has arrived in Sri Lanka this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12218,"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-12217","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\/12217","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=12217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12219,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12217\/revisions\/12219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}