{"id":8987,"date":"2020-06-21T04:46:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T04:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2020-06-21T04:46:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T04:46:23","slug":"the-government-has-failed-miserably-and-is-now-trying-to-divert-public-attention-sajith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/the-government-has-failed-miserably-and-is-now-trying-to-divert-public-attention-sajith\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Government has failed miserably and is now trying to divert Public Attention&#8221; \u2013Sajith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Opposition Leader and Samagi Jana Balawegaya candidate Sajith Premadasa lashed out at former Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage for tarnishing the reputation of legendary cricketers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Premadasa was responding to the former Sports Minister&#8217;s claim that the final match of the ICC World Cup 2011 was fixed and sold to India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;Why did the former Sports Minister wait for 09 years to come up with these allegations? Why didn&#8217;t he report this to the ICC,&#8221; Premadasa questioned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He also added that the objective of the former Minister&#8217;s claim was to destroy the characters of former cricketers including Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardena, Muttiah Muralitharan, and T.M. Dilshan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;The government has failed miserably in providing relief to the people affected by the Corona pandemic. They are now trying to divert the public attention by slinging mud at cricketers,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Asian Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Opposition Leader and Samagi Jana Balawegaya candidate Sajith Premadasa lashed out at former&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8988,"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-8987","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\/8987","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=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}