{"id":57669,"date":"2016-08-15T23:05:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T05:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=57669"},"modified":"2016-08-15T15:32:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T22:32:38","slug":"gammanpila-vows-legal-action-against-cbk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/08\/15\/gammanpila-vows-legal-action-against-cbk\/","title":{"rendered":"Gammanpila vows legal action against CBK"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"newsDateStamp\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"newsDateStamp\">August 15, 2016\u00a0\u00a003:40 pm<\/p>\n<div class=\"bookmarkIcon\"><span class=\"st_twitter\"><span class=\"stButton\"><span class=\"chicklets twitter\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>A lawsuit will be filed against former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga for allegedly making defamatory statements on former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, MP Udaya Gammanpila says.<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>The observation was made while speaking at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (15).<\/p>\n<p>Gammanpila also went on to say he has already discussed on the steps to be taken in this regard with the former Defence Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that a letter of demand will be sent to Bandaranaike Kumaratunga on false allegations she made against the plaintiff about purchasing of fighter jets for the Sri Lankan army.<\/p>\n<p>Bandaranaike accused the former government led by Mahinda Rajapaksa of importing substandard weapons and military equipment for three times the actual price.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gammanpila vows legal action against CBK\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rhs4Z5lXUmw?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>The former President claimed that all six of the fighter aircraft brought down by former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa had crashed.<\/p>\n<p>She said that they had spent three times the actual price of the aircraft and that investigations have been launched to figure out what happened to the remaining money. That is how they engaged in war,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/36514\/gammanpila-vows-legal-action-against-cbk#sthash.nsIgBhcF.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana August 15, 2016\u00a0\u00a003:40 pm \u00a0A lawsuit will be filed against former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga for allegedly making defamatory statements on former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, MP Udaya Gammanpila says. The observation was made while speaking at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (15). Gammanpila also went on to say he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57669","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=57669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}