{"id":46508,"date":"2015-08-03T21:31:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T03:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=46508"},"modified":"2015-08-03T14:19:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T21:19:22","slug":"bandit-queen-going-to-bat-for-yahapalanaya-joke-of-the-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/03\/bandit-queen-going-to-bat-for-yahapalanaya-joke-of-the-century\/","title":{"rendered":"BANDIT QUEEN GOING TO BAT FOR YAHAPALANAYA-JOKE OF THE CENTURY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>CBK\u00a0 decides to bat for UNP-led UNFGG coalition<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>August 2, 2015,<\/p>\n<p>Amidst claims of a rift between former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and some government bigwigs, Kumaratunga yesterday declared her support for the United National Party-led United Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) by visiting the campaign office of Gampaha District candidate Arjuna Ranatunga yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0August 17\u00a0general election would be a contest between good and evil forces and the former President was firmly with us, the former World Cup winning national Cricket Captain said.<\/p>\n<p>Ranatunga also reminded the media of the important role played by Kumaratunga in events leading to the election of Maithripala Sirisena as the President at the January poll.<\/p>\n<p>Who is this fellow ARJUNA,other than playing cricket?<\/p>\n<p>What education\/ professional qualification he is having ?<\/p>\n<p>To become Minister of ports and shipping,does he at least know how to make a ORIGAMI paper boat?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/banditqueenwithunp.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/banditqueenwithunp.png\" alt=\"banditqueenwithunp\" width=\"586\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/banditqueenwithunp.png 586w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/banditqueenwithunp-290x300.png 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBK\u00a0 decides to bat for UNP-led UNFGG coalition August 2, 2015, Amidst claims of a rift between former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and some government bigwigs, Kumaratunga yesterday declared her support for the United National Party-led United Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) by visiting the campaign office of Gampaha District candidate Arjuna Ranatunga yesterday morning. [&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-46508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46508","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=46508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}