{"id":124027,"date":"2022-04-06T11:02:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T18:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=124027"},"modified":"2022-04-06T11:02:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T18:02:53","slug":"jvp-leader-under-fire-over-claims-of-instigating-violent-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/04\/06\/jvp-leader-under-fire-over-claims-of-instigating-violent-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"JVP leader under fire over claims of instigating violent protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake came under fire in Parliament today by government MPs who claimed he was instigating violent protests.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government MPs claimed that Dissanayake was seen chatting to protestors on his way from Parliament on Tuesday and echoing the sentiments of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Referring to the claims, Chief Government Whip Johnston Fernando said it was unbecoming of the JVP leader to provoke protestors to unleash violence and vandalism against anyone . He said the JVP leaders instigated a similar murderous culture during the 88\/89 period .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today , you are in hiding because you lost face over your chat with protestors ,\u201d Fernando said.&nbsp;<strong>(Kelum Bandara and Yohan Perera)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake came under fire in Parliament today by government MPs who claimed he was instigating violent protests.&nbsp; Government MPs claimed that Dissanayake was seen chatting to protestors on his way from Parliament on Tuesday and echoing the sentiments of them. Referring to the claims, Chief Government Whip [&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-124027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124027","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=124027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}