{"id":41681,"date":"2015-02-20T20:23:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T02:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41681"},"modified":"2015-02-20T07:39:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T14:39:38","slug":"bad-omen-for-president-sirisena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/02\/20\/bad-omen-for-president-sirisena\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00b4\u00b4Bad omen\u00b4\u00b4 for President Sirisena"},"content":{"rendered":"

P.Ariyasinghe<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

On 18 th Wednesday President Sirisena on his way back from India went to the Tirumal Temple to attend the 3 am Darshan at the sanctorum of Lord Venkatesvaran. The priests were aware of the VVIP\u00b4s visit and the first daily pre-dawn ritual performed to \u00b4wake up\u00b4\u00a0 Lord\u00a0Venkatesvaran\u00a0was to President Sirisena . When the golden door to the sanctorum of \u00a0the Lord\u00a0was opened the lock got stuck and the key broke. This is the first time in the history of this richest Temple in India that something like this had\u00a0happened and the priests were alarmed. \u00a0They had used a saw to open the lock. There were no dramas but many who were there at the time and those who heard about this incident claimed that it was a \u00b4bad omen\u00b4.\u00a0 May be because they thought that Lord Venkatesvaran\u00a0 was hesitant to offer his \u00b4blessings\u00b4 to President Sirisena\u00a0!<\/p>\n

In contrast to this, 18th Wednesday was\u00a0a successful day to former President Rajapakse. Because looking at the crowd which attended the meeting at Nugegoda it was a great success. Prior to the meeting, according to\u00a0pro-govt forces not more than \u00a0500 would attend. But\u00a0the videos which showed the crowd and the dignitaries\u00a0at the meeting\u00a0would have given a shock to them.\u00a0So this is a threat to Ranil and a shock to President Sirisena as the Nugegoda meeting was a huge success to the pro-Rajapakse group. This would also be a big surprise for the western forces which helped to topple Rajapakse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

P.Ariyasinghe On 18 th Wednesday President Sirisena on his way back from India went to the Tirumal Temple to attend the 3 am Darshan at the sanctorum of Lord Venkatesvaran. The priests were aware of the VVIP\u00b4s visit and the first daily pre-dawn ritual performed to \u00b4wake up\u00b4\u00a0 Lord\u00a0Venkatesvaran\u00a0was to President Sirisena . When the […]<\/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-41681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41681","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=41681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}