{"id":52534,"date":"2016-03-02T10:41:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52534"},"modified":"2016-03-02T10:41:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:41:53","slug":"joint-opposition-and-desperate-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/03\/02\/joint-opposition-and-desperate-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"JOINT OPPOSITION AND DESPERATE MEASURES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When you watch the TV or read daily papers, one can note that there is plenty of mu slinging at each other by both government members and joint opposition .<\/p>\n<p>Many ministers keep talking about money stashed in Dubai .and the recipients of the barrage react by boasting that government has not found a single cent anywhere ,some have promised cur their bellies and some will cut their throats if they find !<\/p>\n<p>They may need long knives to cut\u00a0 bellies and throats because they over grown and big and fat !<\/p>\n<p>We readers and listeners of this lost island, wonder who tells the truth as the confidence is lost about both sections<\/p>\n<p>This week a son of a now paralysed ex minister of marine industry\u00a0 was claiming that a Mega Corruption Deal has taken place during a Yahpalanaya minister who was in their ranks just few months back ,and subsequently jumped to the other side<\/p>\n<p>Irony is that same ex minister was also running the same ministry few years back , there were allegations that a certain investor who wanted\u00a0 space in a harbour\u00a0 to put up a canning factory was claiming that the ex minister wanted one rupee for each can !<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the investor bolted away after spending money for the foundation leaving a can of worms of corruption !!<\/p>\n<p>Do Sri Lankans have short memory like the fish ? or are we so na\u00efve and stupid to believe these stories ??<\/p>\n<p>It is like a devils dance in down south traditions where the Kattadiyas\u201d keep talking to the devil\u201d actor dancing on the tree swaying to and for\u00a0 and keep taking to each other with amusing\u00a0dialog\u00a0!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Dr Sarath Obeysekera When you watch the TV or read daily papers, one can note that there is plenty of mu slinging at each other by both government members and joint opposition . Many ministers keep talking about money stashed in Dubai .and the recipients of the barrage react by boasting that government has not [&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-52534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52534","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=52534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}