{"id":57343,"date":"2016-08-04T22:15:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T04:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=57343"},"modified":"2016-08-04T14:55:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T21:55:44","slug":"gammanpila-ready-to-blow-up-proposed-bridge-between-sl-and-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/08\/04\/gammanpila-ready-to-blow-up-proposed-bridge-between-sl-and-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Gammanpila ready to blow up proposed bridge between SL and India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy\u00a0Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>An observation has reportedly been made by Minister Kabir Hashim to finalise an agreement for building a bridge connecting India and Sri Lanka, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya leader Udaya Gammanpila says.<\/p>\n<p>The observation was made while speaking at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (04). According to Gammanpila, the observation was made while the minister was responding to a cross question asked by a reporter recently in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ready to blow up bridge connecting India, Sri Lanka - Gammanpila\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DQ8jHoG9Tgs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He pointed out there is a possibility Sinhalese of losing their motherland if this proposal comes a reality, The number of unemployed persons in India is over 50 million. There is no way we would be able to stop them from coming here looking for jobs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He also vowed to take actions to blow up\u201d the bridge if it is built for the sake of Sri Lankans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/36370\/gammanpila-ready-to-blow-up-proposed-bridge-between-sl-and-india#sthash.oUVi1aVr.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy\u00a0Adaderana An observation has reportedly been made by Minister Kabir Hashim to finalise an agreement for building a bridge connecting India and Sri Lanka, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya leader Udaya Gammanpila says. The observation was made while speaking at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (04). According to Gammanpila, the observation was made while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57343","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=57343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}