{"id":103655,"date":"2020-06-18T15:01:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T22:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103655"},"modified":"2020-06-18T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T22:01:13","slug":"the-election-is-a-great-opportunity-to-eradicate-fraud-and-deceit-pm-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/18\/the-election-is-a-great-opportunity-to-eradicate-fraud-and-deceit-pm-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The election is a great opportunity to eradicate fraud and deceit- PM (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the forthcoming general election is a great opportunity to focus on the proven ability and to stop the good governance lies and to eradicate fraud and deceit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The Prime Minister says the general election is a hard-fought democratic right and the people should be mindful of what the good governance representatives say during the election campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The Prime Minister&#8217;s Media Unit had issued the full statement to the Media institutes today.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d85\u0d9c\u0db8\u0dd0\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dba\u0db1 \u0db4\u0dd9\u0dbb\u0da7\u0dd4\u0d9c\u0dcf\u0db8\u0dd3 \u0d8b\u0db4\u0d9a\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0db8 - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-3RalbbaLrw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Meanwhile, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and estate owners held a meeting yesterday with regard to the basic salary of estate workers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The Prime Minister&#8217;s Office stated that the Secretary of the Ceylon Workers Congress Jeevan Thondaman and several others were also present. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nThe Prime Minister&#8217;s Media Unit stated that the estate owners have not reached a final agreement regarding the salary demands of the plantation workers and a special discussion is scheduled to be held on the 25th of this month under the patronage of the Prime Minister to reach a final decison.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the forthcoming general election is a great opportunity to focus on the proven ability and to stop the good governance lies and to eradicate fraud and deceit. The Prime Minister says the general election is a hard-fought democratic right and the people should be mindful of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103655","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=103655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}