{"id":7015,"date":"2019-08-12T08:30:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T08:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7015"},"modified":"2019-08-12T08:30:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T08:30:43","slug":"mr-declares-gotabaya-as-slpp-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/mr-declares-gotabaya-as-slpp-presidential-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"MR declares Gotabaya as SLPP Presidential candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday declared former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the Presidential candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rajapaksa made the announcement at the SLPP convention in Colombo today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the choice of the people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa later made a grand entrance at the event and was greeted by SLPP members and others attending the convention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking at the event, Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that he accepted the nomination to contest the polls and assured that he will guide the country in the right path.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He insisted that he will also not allow any foreign country to dictate to Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday declared former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the Presidential&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7016,"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-7015","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\/7015","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=7015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}