{"id":147599,"date":"2025-01-26T16:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T23:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147599"},"modified":"2025-01-26T16:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T23:10:16","slug":"if-mr-has-no-place-to-go-will-provide-suitable-house-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/01\/26\/if-mr-has-no-place-to-go-will-provide-suitable-house-president\/","title":{"rendered":"If MR has no place to go, will provide suitable house: President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, January 26 (Daily Mirror)- President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said today that if former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has no other house to settle in, the government will provide him with a suitable house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a meeting in Thambuttegama, President Dissanayake said he and the Ministers have not moved into mansions and questioned why the former Presidents cannot change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is not reasonable to live in a mansion at the cost of tax payers&#8217; money. If the President and the Ministers have changed, why can&#8217;t they change? If the two have no place to go to, we will provide them with a suitable house to live in. The mansion they are residing in is too big,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When they are asked to move out, they say it is political revenge. We are not taking revenge from anyone. We are taking the country in a new direction. They need to move out before they are asked to do so. We ask them to change. We need to think twice before we spend tax payers&#8217; money,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, January 26 (Daily Mirror)- President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said today that if former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has no other house to settle in, the government will provide him with a suitable house. Speaking at a meeting in Thambuttegama, President Dissanayake said he and the Ministers have not moved into mansions [&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-147599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147599","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=147599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}