{"id":151219,"date":"2025-08-05T15:42:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151219"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:42:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:42:04","slug":"medamulana-better-than-wijerama-says-mr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/08\/05\/medamulana-better-than-wijerama-says-mr\/","title":{"rendered":"Medamulana better than Wijerama, says MR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, August 5 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today brushed off concerns over the government\u2019s move to slash privileges granted to former Presidents, saying the real privilege lies with the people.<\/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=\"&quot;Medamulana is better than Wijerama&quot; MR says removing perks an of revenge\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0DOYkGlcxBs?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\n\n\n<p>Responding to reporters in Colombo, Rajapaksa said he was not concerned about the government\u2019s attempts to remove certain benefits, suggesting it was being done out of political vengeance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also remarked, Medamulana is much better than Wijerama Mawatha,\u201d referring to his private residence in Hambantota compared to the official residence provided in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They can remove any privileges from us. What matters is the privilege I have from the people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, August 5 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today brushed off concerns over the government\u2019s move to slash privileges granted to former Presidents, saying the real privilege lies with the people. Responding to reporters in Colombo, Rajapaksa said he was not concerned about the government\u2019s attempts to remove certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mahinda-rajapaksa","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151219","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=151219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}