{"id":2295,"date":"2018-01-07T03:25:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T03:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2018-01-07T03:28:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T03:28:42","slug":"sexual-bribe-sought-from-actress-to-contest-from-mrs-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sexual-bribe-sought-from-actress-to-contest-from-mrs-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual bribe sought from actress to contest from MR\u2019s party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A sexual bribe had been demanded from an actress who had sought to contest the Local Government elections from the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) headed by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Madusha Ramasinghe said that she had decided to give up acting and enter politics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">She says that she sought nominations from the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna to contest the Local Government elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However she says an official close to Rajapaksa has demanded a sexual bribe in order to ensure she is given a nomination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Madusha Ramasinghe said that she worked for the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and with the Local Government elections being announced she felt she must contest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However the official in the party had said that she will need to pose nude in order to be given a nomination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ramasinghe said that she had raised the matter with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa but he simply expressed regret and did not take any action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sexual bribe had been demanded from an actress who had sought to contest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2301,"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-2295","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\/2295","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=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}