{"id":139015,"date":"2023-12-15T15:41:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139015"},"modified":"2023-12-15T15:41:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:41:01","slug":"mahinda-says-slpp-members-were-harassed-behind-false-front-of-aragalaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/12\/15\/mahinda-says-slpp-members-were-harassed-behind-false-front-of-aragalaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda says SLPP members were harassed behind false front of \u2018Aragalaya\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says a special commission should be appointed to investigate the incidents of harassment experienced by Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) members during the \u2018Aragalaya\u2019 protest movement last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the SLPP\u2019s National Convention to unveil the party\u2019s political mission titled \u2018Ayubowan 2024\u2019 got underway at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo this afternoon (Dec.15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the event, the former President was unanimously re-elected as the leader of SLPP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SLPP\u2019s founder Basil Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and many other high-profile politicians were in attendance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the supporters, Mahinda Rajapaksa claimed that the SLPP members were subjected to harassment by certain individuals under the false front of the \u2018Aragalaya\u2019 protest movement. We will justly resolve these issues one day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Basil Rajapaksa, delivering a speech, expressed confidence that the SLPP would definitely win the upcoming parliamentary election. Let\u2019s get ready to form our own government,\u201d the former finance minister told the supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says a special commission should be appointed to investigate the incidents of harassment experienced by Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) members during the \u2018Aragalaya\u2019 protest movement last year. Addressing the SLPP\u2019s National Convention to unveil the party\u2019s political mission titled \u2018Ayubowan 2024\u2019 got underway at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139015","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=139015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}