{"id":5733,"date":"2019-03-16T10:01:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T10:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=5733"},"modified":"2019-03-16T10:01:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T10:01:53","slug":"gota-seeks-to-relinquish-us-citizenship-and-contest-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/gota-seeks-to-relinquish-us-citizenship-and-contest-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Gota seeks to relinquish US citizenship and contest polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has sought to relinquish his US citizenship in order to qualify to contest the next Presidential elections, local media reported today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The \u2018Aruna\u2019 newspaper reported that he has already submitted papers to the US Embassy to relinquish his US citizenship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile, the Sunday Lankadeepa newspaper reported that Gotabaya Rajapaksa is to be named the Presidential candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It was reported that the decision was taken at a special meeting held at the residence of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has sought to relinquish his US citizenship in order&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5734,"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-5733","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\/5733","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=5733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}