{"id":103382,"date":"2020-06-10T15:19:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T22:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103382"},"modified":"2020-06-10T15:19:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T22:19:34","slug":"no-one-misses-you-mangala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/10\/no-one-misses-you-mangala\/","title":{"rendered":"No One Misses You Mangala"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>At long last Mangala\nSamaraweera has decided to end politics. Assuming it is true, a wise decision,\nalbeit too late. Mangala was a regressive force in Lankan politics contributing\nnothing much positively. He earned the wrath of the people in whatever\nministerial portfolio he held \u2013 media, construction, foreign, finance, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He played a\nnot so small part in disrupting the war effort by Chandrika and Mahinda\nregimes. While the army was battling Tamil terrorists under trying conditions\nin July 1995, his \u2018Sudu Nelum Movement\u2019 ridiculed the military while he was a\nsenior minister of the same government. Around 1998 he said the report of the\n\u2018Sinhala Commission\u2019 that looked into some Sinhala grievances must be\nrubbished. That was both racist and malicious. He was the campaign manager of\nMahinda in 2005 but soon after Mahinda\u2019s election as president, Mangala\ndisrupted him and defected from his regime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mangala was\na burden to whatever party he aligned. Although he could win in his home\ndistrict of Matara thanks to his paternal and maternal political heavyweights,\nhis views were in sharp contrast to mainstream views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mangala, you\nwon\u2019t be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara At long last Mangala Samaraweera has decided to end politics. Assuming it is true, a wise decision, albeit too late. Mangala was a regressive force in Lankan politics contributing nothing much positively. He earned the wrath of the people in whatever ministerial portfolio he held \u2013 media, construction, foreign, finance, etc. He played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}