{"id":2066,"date":"2017-11-16T18:13:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2017-11-16T18:13:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:13:01","slug":"joint-opposition-warns-some-deals-will-be-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/joint-opposition-warns-some-deals-will-be-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint opposition warns some deals will be cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The joint opposition today warned that some agreements signed by the Government will be cancelled under a new Government led by Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that the Government has signed some deals which are harmful to the Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He told Parliament today that any agreement signed with a foreign country seen as a threat to Sri Lanka will be cancelled under a Joint opposition led Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rajapaksa also said the Government is today going behind \u201cwhite elephant\u201d projects initiated by the former Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said the Government suspended the Port City project and also stored paddy at the Mattala Airport but they are now looking to make money out of the two projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When the United National Party was in the opposition it labelled the Port City and the Mattala Airport as \u201cwhite elephant\u201d projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The joint opposition today warned that some agreements signed by the Government will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2067,"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-2066","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\/2066","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=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}