{"id":130262,"date":"2022-11-28T15:54:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T22:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=130262"},"modified":"2022-11-28T15:54:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T22:54:57","slug":"jalani-premadasa-had-called-gr-asking-for-pm-post-for-sajith-diana-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/28\/jalani-premadasa-had-called-gr-asking-for-pm-post-for-sajith-diana-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalani Premadasa had called GR asking for PM post for Sajith\u2019 &#8211; Diana claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>State Minister of Tourism Diana Gamage today claimed in Parliament that Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa&#8217;s wife, Jalani Premadasa had telephoned former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa asking for the premiership for her husband when Gotabaya was the President.&nbsp;<\/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=\"Sajith\u2019s wife called Gotabaya about premiership - State Ministe Diana Gamage warns opposition......\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0XOP2dpD-pk?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>&#8220;Not only the Opposition Leader, but his wife too had called Gotabaya Rajapaksa asking him for the opportunity to allow Sajith to become the Prime Minister. Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa had shared this with us,&#8221; Gamage said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She further warned Sajith in Parliament saying that if he continued organizing protests, the people would beat him on the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Stop trying to sabotage efforts to save this country,&#8221; Diana warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror State Minister of Tourism Diana Gamage today claimed in Parliament that Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa&#8217;s wife, Jalani Premadasa had telephoned former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa asking for the premiership for her husband when Gotabaya was the President.&nbsp; &#8220;Not only the Opposition Leader, but his wife too had called Gotabaya Rajapaksa asking him [&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-130262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130262","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=130262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}