{"id":7218,"date":"2019-09-15T03:46:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T03:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7218"},"modified":"2019-09-15T03:46:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T03:46:22","slug":"gotas-camp-says-unaware-if-china-funding-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/gotas-camp-says-unaware-if-china-funding-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Gota\u2019s camp says unaware if China funding campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The team involved in promoting former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the next Presidential elections, says it is not aware if China is funding his campaign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Asked about speculation that China was pumping in money for the campaign, which is currently being conducted on a large scale, Rajapaksa\u2019s spokesman, Parliamentarian Keheliya Rambukwella told the Colombo Gazette that he was not aware if China was involved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, he said that the business community and other professions are pushing for a Government change and are supporting Rajapaksa to bring about the change they expect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cSeveral businessmen have given their blessings to Gotabaya Rajapaksa,\u201d Rambukwella said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been named the Presidential candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The SLPP is led by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is known to have a close relationship with China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">During Rajapaksa\u2019s term as President, China and Sri Lanka developed a very close bilateral relationship resulting in several projects in Sri Lanka being funded by the Chinese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">During his ongoing campaign to be President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has had several meetings, most of which have been on a grand scale, requiring a lot of funding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team involved in promoting former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the next Presidential&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7219,"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-7218","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\/7218","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=7218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}