{"id":125031,"date":"2022-05-06T15:05:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T22:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=125031"},"modified":"2022-05-06T15:05:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T22:05:33","slug":"mahinda-rajapaksa-plotted-with-ltte-and-defeated-me-in-the-elections-ranil-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/05\/06\/mahinda-rajapaksa-plotted-with-ltte-and-defeated-me-in-the-elections-ranil-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Rajapaksa plotted with LTTE and defeated me in the elections &#8211; Ranil (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says that he has never had deals with the Rajapaksa family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MP Wickremasinghe said that Mahinda Rajapaksa had plotted with LTTE leader Prabaharan to defeat him in the elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Prime Minister made these comments in Parliament today (06) in response to the allegations made by MP Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam against Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday (05).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0dbb\u0db1\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dca \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dba\u0db1 \u0d85\u0dc5\u0dd4\u0dad\u0dca\u0db8 \u0dbb\u0dcf\u0da2\u0db4\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2 \u0db4\u0db1\u0dca\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dca \u0db4\u0daf\u0dda - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H-wzFkyKiyY?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says that he has never had deals with the Rajapaksa family. MP Wickremasinghe said that Mahinda Rajapaksa had plotted with LTTE leader Prabaharan to defeat him in the elections. The former Prime Minister made these comments in Parliament today (06) in response to the allegations made by [&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-125031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125031","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=125031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}