{"id":59435,"date":"2016-10-06T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=59435"},"modified":"2016-10-06T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T22:58:10","slug":"jo-invites-women-to-dash-coconuts-against-govt-over-tax-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/06\/jo-invites-women-to-dash-coconuts-against-govt-over-tax-burden\/","title":{"rendered":"JO invites women to dash coconuts against govt over tax burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"newsDateStamp\">October 6, 2016\u00a0\u00a005:27 pm<\/p>\n<div class=\"bookmarkIcon\"><span class=\"st_sharethis\"><span class=\"stButton\"><span class=\"chicklets sharethis\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>FA MP Janaka Wakkumbura says that the government is attempting to increase the tax burden already placed on the people and therefore invited the women in the country to dash coconuts over this issue.<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>The women in the country are prepared to dash coconuts next Wednesday in order to send the government packing, he said, adding, that the first of a series of such events will take place in Modara.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joint Opposition invites women to dash coconuts against govt over tax burden\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/22ZuMOxnW3g?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>Addressing a \u2018Joint Opposition\u2019 press conference today (6), he invited women who identify grief very well\u201d to come to Modara on that day and rally against the VAT hike, the increase in goods prices and the government\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>The Ratnapura District MP said that while the public is suffering under the weight of taxes, Ministers in the government continue to live luxuriously.<\/p>\n<p>He said that even though Provincial Council members have been told not to travel overseas, all the Ministers are going abroad every day and that rule does not apply to them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/37287\/jo-invites-women-to-dash-coconuts-against-govt-over-tax-burden#sthash.6Hlm1zQB.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>adaderana October 6, 2016\u00a0\u00a005:27 pm \u00a0FA MP Janaka Wakkumbura says that the government is attempting to increase the tax burden already placed on the people and therefore invited the women in the country to dash coconuts over this issue. The women in the country are prepared to dash coconuts next Wednesday in order to send [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59435","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=59435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}