{"id":7303,"date":"2019-10-08T06:06:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T06:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7303"},"modified":"2019-10-08T06:06:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T06:06:27","slug":"shivajilingam-and-hizbullah-enter-the-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/shivajilingam-and-hizbullah-enter-the-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Shivajilingam and Hizbullah enter the Presidential race"},"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\">Former Northern Provincial Council Tamil National Alliance member M.K. Shivajilingam and former Eastern Province Governor M.L.A.M. Hizbullah have entered the race to become President at the November Presidential 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\">Shivajilingam and Hizbullah paid the cash deposit at the Election Commission.<\/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\">Hizbullah was a former State Minister before being appointed as the Eastern Province Governor.<\/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\">He was forced to resign as Eastern Province Governor following the Easter Sunday attacks.<\/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\">Hizbullah had been accused of having links to the attacks, an allegation he denies.<\/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\">Shivajilingam was a member of Parliament and then member of the Northern Provincial Council.<\/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\">He has been very vocal on demanding accountability for alleged war crimes and has been pushing for an international investigation on incidents related to the war in Sri Lanka.<\/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 Gazette<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Northern Provincial Council Tamil National Alliance member M.K. Shivajilingam and former Eastern Province&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7304,"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-7303","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\/7303","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=7303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}