{"id":7287,"date":"2019-10-06T07:10:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T07:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7287"},"modified":"2019-10-06T07:10:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T07:10:44","slug":"sajith-pledges-to-preserve-the-unity-and-territorial-integrity-of-the-motherland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sajith-pledges-to-preserve-the-unity-and-territorial-integrity-of-the-motherland\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajith pledges to preserve the unity and territorial integrity of the Motherland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The presidential candidate of the New Democratic Front led by United National Party (UNP) Minister Sajith Premadasa pledged to build a proud developed country safeguarding the unity, territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Motherland. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Addressing a public rally in Moratuwa today Minister Premadasa said he will be the first president in the country who will not take a salary, allowances or mansions, especially presidential palaces. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Minister Premadasa participated in three public rallies organized by the State Minister of Finance Eran Wickramaratne in Moratuwa today. The first meeting was held at Angulana, Moratuwa. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;We declare that we will create a developed and proud Sri Lanka with dignity and respect for the unity, territorial integrity and sovereignty of our motherland,&#8221; Premadasa said. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;The only greed in my heart is to win the honor as a president who provided a distinguished historic service to the people of this land,&#8221; he said adding that he has the energy needed to rebuild the country. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Premadasa further said he will convert the presidential palaces around the country to IT university campuses for youth and will not import bullet-proof vehicles. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Presidential candidate added that he will sacrifice his entire life to fulfill the needs of the public and requested the public to give a chance to his strength, determination and commitment at this election.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidential candidate of the New Democratic Front led by United National Party (UNP)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7288,"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-7287","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\/7287","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=7287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}