{"id":51608,"date":"2016-01-31T13:57:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T19:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51608"},"modified":"2016-01-30T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T00:28:08","slug":"president-mahinda-rajapaksa-is-a-statesmen-his-family-belongs-to-that-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/31\/president-mahinda-rajapaksa-is-a-statesmen-his-family-belongs-to-that-class\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT MAHINDA RAJAPAKSA IS A STATESMEN. HIS FAMILY BELONGS TO THAT CLASS."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>By Noor Nizam. SLFP Stalwart, Peace and Political Activist &amp; Political Communication Researcher. January 30th., 2016.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Rajapaksa family is Stronger than the Sigiriya Rock. If they have not done wrong and no harm to others, they will come out of this sooner or later. Loyal SLFP stalwarts and party sympathizers will always stand by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahinda Rajapaksa should at least now understand who the &#8220;backstabbers&#8221; from within the SLFP and those who surrounded him at his peak of power were.<\/p>\n<p>He should have also known who the political cut-throats of the Muslim and Tamil communities are. President Mahinda Rajapaksa should never, never, never ever tolerate them in the future. In politics these things happen.<\/p>\n<p>This happened to late Madam Sirimavo Bandaranike, to J.R. Jayawardene, to Kamraj, to Mujibu Rahuman, to Zulfikar Ali Butto and many other leaders who were loved by their people.<\/p>\n<p>There near kith and kin became victims of their opponents, both political and otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Yet they came back or their next of kin came back to power by the grace of God AllMighty as long as they were clean. It is only a matter of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Noor Nizam. SLFP Stalwart, Peace and Political Activist &amp; Political Communication Researcher. January 30th., 2016. The Rajapaksa family is Stronger than the Sigiriya Rock. If they have not done wrong and no harm to others, they will come out of this sooner or later. Loyal SLFP stalwarts and party sympathizers will always stand by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noor-nizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51608","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=51608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}