{"id":2072,"date":"2017-11-16T18:44:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2017-11-16T18:44:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:44:54","slug":"sampanthan-slams-mr-accuses-him-of-duplicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sampanthan-slams-mr-accuses-him-of-duplicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sampanthan slams MR, accuses him of duplicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and opposition leader R Sampanthan today slammed former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and accused him of duplicity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a speech in Parliament, Sampanthan said that Rajapaksa had supported devolution of power when he was President but was now opposing it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking while Rajapaksa was seated on the other side of the aisle, Sampanthan said that the former President was spreading discord among the communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWhy are you trying to stir communal feelings now?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sampanthan said that Rajapaksa was attempting to stir communal tensions in the country in order to win the upcoming Local Government elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He also said that what is being done now through the process to draft a new Constitution is what Rajapaksa wanted to do when he was in power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWhat is the difference from what is being done now to what President Rajapaksa endeavored to do at that point of time?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sampanthan said that Rajapaksa had expressed his firm resolve to implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution soon after the war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and opposition leader R Sampanthan today slammed former President Mahinda&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2073,"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-2072","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\/2072","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=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}