{"id":9006,"date":"2020-06-22T06:06:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T06:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9006"},"modified":"2020-06-22T06:06:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T06:06:24","slug":"colombo-archbishop-politicized-his-office-carried-out-well-orchestrated-plan-to-drive-our-voters-away-at-last-election-harin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/colombo-archbishop-politicized-his-office-carried-out-well-orchestrated-plan-to-drive-our-voters-away-at-last-election-harin\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Colombo Archbishop politicized his office: Carried out well-orchestrated plan to drive our voters away at last election&#8221;: Harin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 150%;text-align: justify\">SJB national list candidate Harin Fernando criticized Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith for politicizing his position before the last Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;text-align: justify\">&#8220;At the Presidential election, 500,000 votes would have made a difference. There was a well-orchestrated campaign to ensure that this bloc does not vote for the UNP-led alliance&#8217;s candidate,&#8221; Fernando said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;text-align: justify\">&#8220;We all know that 80% of Catholic votes traditionally support the UNP. They carried out a well-thought-out plan to drive them away. Cardinal Ranjith said certain ministers, whose fathers knew of the Easter Sunday attacks, managed to protect themselves. That statement alone was a part of that politically orchestrated plan,&#8221; Fernando explained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;text-align: justify\">&#8220;This position was politicized at the hands of the current Archbishop of Colombo. I was not going to talk about these issues in public. But, we have to make the public aware of this problem,&#8221; he said<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Asian Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SJB national list candidate Harin Fernando criticized Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith for politicizing his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9007,"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-9006","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\/9006","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=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}