{"id":47661,"date":"2015-09-08T14:39:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T20:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47661"},"modified":"2015-09-08T06:46:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T13:46:39","slug":"what-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/09\/08\/what-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"What democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Jayantha Liyanage<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>No White Vans?<\/p>\n<p>You are wrong, white van culture is still intact now taken over by the UNPers.<\/p>\n<p>I was distributing leaflets in the Kurunegala city center on 12th August &#8211; on the same that UNP had its main rally.<\/p>\n<p>Three UNP supporters dragged me across the street in front of hundreds people watching\u00a0 and tried to forced me in to a van, that also happened to be white van &#8211; they were saying that I was distributing mud leaflets.<\/p>\n<p>I fought back and as a result they could not get me into the van.<\/p>\n<p>My leg was injured and several other places in the body was swollen . Still one of my finger is swollen<\/p>\n<p>I was shouting to them when they were dragging me asking them to read but they did not listen. Even after I stopped them I asked them to read it but the main thug was an illiterate person. So many UNP supporters including candidates came to the nearest police post\u00a0 and started threatening the police office who took me to that police post at the bus stand.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly Higher police officers came to the scene and read the leaflet and said it is not a mud leaflet as it was printed in reputable printer with my name, address and email address on it.<\/p>\n<p>Yahapalanaya?\u00a0 &#8211; bullshit. They were in heighten mood expecting an\u00a0 outright victory.<\/p>\n<p>Had UNP won an outright victory it could have been a repeat of 1977 giving police officers a holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think that UNP thugs have turned into saints.<\/p>\n<p>I have lodged a complaint to the police and investigation is going on.<\/p>\n<p>Jayantha Liyanage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jayantha Liyanage No White Vans? You are wrong, white van culture is still intact now taken over by the UNPers. I was distributing leaflets in the Kurunegala city center on 12th August &#8211; on the same that UNP had its main rally. Three UNP supporters dragged me across the street in front of hundreds people [&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-47661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47661","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=47661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}