{"id":149013,"date":"2025-04-09T15:40:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=149013"},"modified":"2025-04-09T15:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:40:31","slug":"rw-funded-maithris-2015-presidential-campaign-sjb-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/04\/09\/rw-funded-maithris-2015-presidential-campaign-sjb-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"RW funded Maithri\u2019s 2015 Presidential campaign: SJB MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, April 9 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; SJB MP Jagath Vithana alleged in Parliament that former President Ranil Wickremesinghe funded Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s 2015 Presidential campaign-on the condition that Arjuna Mahendran be appointed Central Bank Governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MP said he will reveal much more of a fresh investigation being held into the Bond Scam if he is summoned for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, April 9 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; SJB MP Jagath Vithana alleged in Parliament that former President Ranil Wickremesinghe funded Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s 2015 Presidential campaign-on the condition that Arjuna Mahendran be appointed Central Bank Governor. The MP said he will reveal much more of a fresh investigation being held into the Bond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149013","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=149013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}