{"id":147663,"date":"2025-01-30T16:38:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T23:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147663"},"modified":"2025-01-30T16:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T23:38:23","slug":"ndf-candidates-who-contested-general-elections-to-meet-ranil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/01\/30\/ndf-candidates-who-contested-general-elections-to-meet-ranil\/","title":{"rendered":"NDF candidates who contested general elections to meet Ranil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, January 30 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The candidates who contested the general elections in 2024 under the New Democratic Front (NDF) is scheduled to meet former President Ranil Wickremesinghe this evening, former MP Premanath C Dolawatte said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said they are expected to discuss how to contest the upcoming elections including the Local Government elections and current issues in the country.<\/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=\"NDF candidates who contested general elections to meet Ranil\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cqvi5H0CvGE?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, January 30 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The candidates who contested the general elections in 2024 under the New Democratic Front (NDF) is scheduled to meet former President Ranil Wickremesinghe this evening, former MP Premanath C Dolawatte said. He said they are expected to discuss how to contest the upcoming elections including [&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-147663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147663","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=147663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}