{"id":138194,"date":"2023-11-11T15:24:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T22:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=138194"},"modified":"2023-11-11T15:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T22:24:22","slug":"roshan-fears-he-may-be-poisoned-at-presidential-secretariat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/11\/11\/roshan-fears-he-may-be-poisoned-at-presidential-secretariat\/","title":{"rendered":"Roshan fears he may be poisoned at Presidential Secretariat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/author\/SHEHAN-DANIEL\/575\">\u00a0<\/a>By\u00a0<span class=\"a-profile\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/author\/SHEHAN-DANIEL\/575\">SHEHAN DANIEL<\/a> Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Reiterating an earlier claim that he had received threats to his life, Sports Minister said that he would not drink even a glass of water at the Presidential Secretariat because it could be poisoned.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I have faith in the President (Wickremesinghe), I go to see him. But I will never drink even a glass of water from the Presidential Secretariat because I can&#8217;t be sure if it has been poisoned,&#8221; the Minister alleged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am concerned about my life to that extent,\u201d the Minister said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While stopping short of naming those he believed posed a threat to his life, he alleged people associated with cricket administration would poison him if they could.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister also lashed out at Sagala Ratnayake, who is an advisor to President Ranil Wickremesinghe, for showing compassion towards corrupt\u201d SLC officials.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know why he is compassionate towards the cricket board officials, who have been shown to be corrupt (in the special audit report),\u201d the minister claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He should be compassionate and praise me,\u201d a visibly agitated Ranasinghe said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By\u00a0SHEHAN DANIEL Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Reiterating an earlier claim that he had received threats to his life, Sports Minister said that he would not drink even a glass of water at the Presidential Secretariat because it could be poisoned.&nbsp; &#8220;I have faith in the President (Wickremesinghe), I go to see [&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-138194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138194","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=138194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}