{"id":40695,"date":"2015-01-08T12:39:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T19:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40695"},"modified":"2015-01-08T12:39:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T19:39:25","slug":"if-sirisena-wins-the-bandit-queen-will-be-back-on-the-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/08\/if-sirisena-wins-the-bandit-queen-will-be-back-on-the-saddle\/","title":{"rendered":"If Sirisena wins, the &#8216;Bandit Queen&#8217; will be back on the saddle !"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">P.Ariyasinghe,Melbourne<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>According to reports, nearly 70 per cent had voted in most districts, without any incidents. In an unlikely event of Sirisena winning the Presidential elections, it will be Chandrika who will be at the helm of affairs in Sri Lanka. Ranil and his cohorts will be dumped in the background. She will be back on the saddle and manipulate Sirisena how to run the country. For eleven years she wrecked the country and now she is back fingering in politics and throwing her weight around. Her only ambition is to put &#8216;Horagolla&#8217; on the stage.<\/p>\n<p>However, we hope that the people who voted today remembered the dark days we were in, when the megalomaniac terrorist leader Prabhakaran was dictating terms to the people. If not for President Rajapakse we would be still in square one. Those days are forgotten by selfish and ambitious people like Sirisena, Ranil, Chandrika and other traitors who defected to the Opposition. Nobody knows how much they had been paid by those who want a regime change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.Ariyasinghe,Melbourne According to reports, nearly 70 per cent had voted in most districts, without any incidents. In an unlikely event of Sirisena winning the Presidential elections, it will be Chandrika who will be at the helm of affairs in Sri Lanka. Ranil and his cohorts will be dumped in the background. She will be back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40695","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=40695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}