{"id":114856,"date":"2021-06-03T16:26:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=114856"},"modified":"2021-06-03T16:26:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:26:21","slug":"the-obnoxious-political-interference-and-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/06\/03\/the-obnoxious-political-interference-and-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"The obnoxious political interference and claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Laksiri Warnakula\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>One boasts; how well the\nnation-wide vaccination programme is going. And then we have another, who tried\nto get in the way of health officials at a vaccination centre, demanding that\nthe chit-bearers coming from him be given priority over the rest of the ordinary\npeople in waiting (The editorial of the Island of 31-05-21, \u2018Guru-gola way of\ndoing it\u2019), many quite possibly for long hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the next in line is one, who\nbrazenly violated the health restrictions imposed&nbsp;by the authorities and let the people congegate\nand converge, as they wished. And the result was kick-starting a mega-spread of\nthe virus, which is still going and sweeping through the whole nation without\nany sign of even receding, let alone stopping altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You see that those, who drink\nthe concoction, made from an oupouring amount of inferiority complex,\nstupidity, arrogance, ignorence and acquired political might can become lethal\nto a country. And the sooner the people realise this and unseat them at the\nearliest opportunity, the better, for the present as well as for the future, of\nthe nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I am not going to put\nthe whole blame for what\u2019s happening now in the country as regards \u2018Covid\u2019 on\nthose misfits alone. The irresponsible public putting \u2018Charithra\/Varithra\u2019\nbefore the country\u2019s well-being, opting to celebrate with wanton disregard for\nthe dreadful consequenses that would inevitably follow, are equally responsible\ntoo, happily apalauding and following the politician\/politicians, who made it\npossible to celebrate without any restrictions. And all the while, the \u2018Covid\u2019\nmust have been waiting, to launch the invasion&nbsp;on all fronts, both rural\nand urban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And hasn\u2019t it already done so?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laksiri Warnakula&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laksiri Warnakula\u00a0\u00a0 One boasts; how well the nation-wide vaccination programme is going. And then we have another, who tried to get in the way of health officials at a vaccination centre, demanding that the chit-bearers coming from him be given priority over the rest of the ordinary people in waiting (The editorial of the Island [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114856","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=114856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}