{"id":121800,"date":"2022-01-05T16:42:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T23:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121800"},"modified":"2022-01-05T16:42:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T23:42:39","slug":"no-regrets-about-speaking-the-truth-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/05\/no-regrets-about-speaking-the-truth-video\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No regrets about speaking the truth&#8217; (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Susil Premajayantha, who was recently removed from the post of Minister of State, says that when he speaks the truth on behalf of the people, he does not regret losing his ministry post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said that if those who point out the wrong policies and decisions of the government are punished without question, the people will give the verdict for such things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db4\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dda\u0db8\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dda \u0dad\u0dbb\u0dd4 - \u0db4\u0da7\u0dd2 \u0d9c\u0dd0\u0dbd\u0dc0\u0dd9\u0dba\u0dd2 - \u0db4\u0ddc\u0dc5\u0dda \u0d9c\u0dd2\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dba\u0dd2 \u0dc4\u0dad\u0dca\u0db4\u0ddc\u0dc5\u0dda \u0d9c\u0dd0\u0dc0\u0dd4\u0dab\u0dda  - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MRHE3iYsagA?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>The response by the former State Minister to a question raised by a journalist while he visited the Delkanda Fair to purchase vegetables, received heat from many parties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former minister said that the cause of all crises such as teacher problems, fertilizer, gas, fertilizer ships and rice was that the government was going in the wrong direction. He also said that the poor people of the country were affected by all these. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Susil Premajayantha, who was recently removed from the post of Minister of State, says that when he speaks the truth on behalf of the people, he does not regret losing his ministry post. He also said that if those who point out the wrong policies and decisions of the government are punished [&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-121800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121800","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=121800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}