{"id":7633,"date":"2019-11-29T04:33:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T04:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7633"},"modified":"2019-11-29T04:33:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T04:33:40","slug":"vaiko-arrested-for-protesting-against-president-rajapaksas-india-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/vaiko-arrested-for-protesting-against-president-rajapaksas-india-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaiko arrested for protesting against President Rajapaksa\u2019s India visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">India\u2019s MDMK leader Vaiko was arrested today for protesting against the visit of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Vaiko and his party workers staged a protest at Jantar Mantar on Thursday morning against newly elected Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the Deccan Chronicle reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rajya Sabha MP Vaiko and his supporters were detained by the Delhi Police for protesting against Rajapaksa\u2019s visit to India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cGun-toting soldiers are roaming in the streets inhabited by Tamil people. Tamil areas have become concentration camps controlled by the Sri Lankan army. What happened in Nazi Hitler\u2019s time in Germany and Poland, is happening today in Sri Lanka,\u201d Vaiko said while addressing a public meeting which had gathered in the protest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0\u201c80 million Tamils are living in India. We have got an amicable relationship with Tamils in Sri Lanka. Why did Prime Minister Narendra Modi send his Foreign Minister Jaishankar to Sri Lanka? I suggest India should not get cheated by Sri Lanka. Gotabaya Rajapaksa will never establish a friendship with India as in geopolitical interests they will be supported by China and Pakistan,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Vaiko went on to say that he condemns the invitation to Rajapaksa. \u201cGotabaya says that only with the vote of Sinhalese, he became the President of Sri Lanka. He would not have the welfare of Tamil people in his mind,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Sri Lankan President will be on a three-day visit to India from November 28-30.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s MDMK leader Vaiko was arrested today for protesting against the visit of Sri&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-news","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633","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=7633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}