{"id":9960,"date":"2020-10-22T12:35:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T12:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9960"},"modified":"2020-10-22T12:35:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T12:35:54","slug":"speaker-urged-to-probe-attempt-to-assault-wimal-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/speaker-urged-to-probe-attempt-to-assault-wimal-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker urged to probe attempt to assault Wimal in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has been urged to probe an attempt to assault Minister Wimal Weerawansa in Parliament yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Parliamentarian Nalin Bandara said that the attempt to assault the Minister threatens the security of Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Parliamentarian Jayantha Katagoda had attempted to assault the Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said that he will look into the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was reported yesterday that Katagoda had attempted to assault Weerawansa following a disagreement on the duel citizenship issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weerawansa had reportedly complained to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa over the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has been urged to probe an attempt to assault Minister&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960","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=9960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}