{"id":1417,"date":"2017-06-10T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2017-06-10T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T08:31:08","slug":"government-is-conducting-the-gnanasara-drama-to-postpone-the-local-authority-polls-as-it-knows-it-will-be-defeated-alleges-joint-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/government-is-conducting-the-gnanasara-drama-to-postpone-the-local-authority-polls-as-it-knows-it-will-be-defeated-alleges-joint-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Government is conducting the \u201cGnanasara Drama\u201d to postpone the Local Authority Polls as it knows it will be defeated &#8211; alleges Joint Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The government is attempting to delay the local government elections by using Galagodatte Gnanasara Thera to divert attention from the real issues, the joint opposition said today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">JO spokesman Gamini Lokuge told a news conference that the government was reluctant to hold the elections because it knew it would be defeated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said this government with the help of the international forces is conducting the \u2018Gnanasara drama\u2019 to divert the attention so that it could cling to power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mr. Lokuge said a similar coup was hatched during the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime by using the Thera to topple the then government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile, he said the government should not sell the country\u2019s resources such as the buildings which housed Nuwara Eliya, Kandy and Galle post offices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Commenting on the incident where Minister John Amaratunga was reported to have threatened a group of journalists when he was questioned about the garbage disposal issue, the MP said it was the right time for the minister to retire from politics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is attempting to delay the local government elections by using Galagodatte Gnanasara&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1418,"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-1417","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\/1417","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=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}