{"id":152799,"date":"2025-10-31T16:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=152799"},"modified":"2025-10-31T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:31:29","slug":"mp-archchuna-keeps-sword-for-safety-after-denied-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/10\/31\/mp-archchuna-keeps-sword-for-safety-after-denied-security\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Archchuna keeps sword for safety after denied security"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru news<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.hirunews.lk\/Data\/News_Images\/202510\/1761917162_1651523_hirunews.jpg\" alt=\"MP+Archchuna+keeps+sword+for+safety+after+denied+security\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaffna District Member of Parliament Ramanathan Arjunan states that despite receiving death threats, he has not been provided with security by the government, and therefore, he keeps a sword for his protection. He says he has informed the Speaker of Parliament and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) about this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MP pointed out that he had previously requested security in writing on two occasions due to threats to his life, but received no response from the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MP mentioned that he requested a pistol for his protection but was denied authorisation by the government for that as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following that, he requested a &#8216;Spray Gun&#8217; used for animal protection, but again, he received no response from the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, MP Ramanathan Arjunan further stated that he now keeps a sword for his own safety, which is always kept in his motor car, and that he has taken steps to inform the Speaker and the IGP of this situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru news Jaffna District Member of Parliament Ramanathan Arjunan states that despite receiving death threats, he has not been provided with security by the government, and therefore, he keeps a sword for his protection. He says he has informed the Speaker of Parliament and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) about this. The MP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152799","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=152799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152800,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152799\/revisions\/152800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}