{"id":130109,"date":"2022-11-22T16:38:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T23:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=130109"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:38:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T23:38:55","slug":"i-never-left-the-people-mahinda-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/22\/i-never-left-the-people-mahinda-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I never left the people &#8221; &#8211; Mahinda Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that everyone should support the budget in accordance with the amendments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He mentioned this while making a special statement in Parliament today (22).&lt;br \/>&lt;br \/>Meanwhile, he said that he never left the people and ran away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The President as the Minister of Finance indicated in the budget that he will create a new economy. To create such an economy, there are many long-term and short-term activities that we need to do. We must understand all this with the realities of the global economic and political process. Only if we move in such a strategic plan we can create a positive future, so it is important that we all support it subject to the amendments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that everyone should support the budget in accordance with the amendments. He mentioned this while making a special statement in Parliament today (22).&lt;br \/>&lt;br \/>Meanwhile, he said that he never left the people and ran away. &#8220;The President as the Minister of Finance indicated in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130109","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=130109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}