{"id":61561,"date":"2016-12-17T06:39:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T12:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=61561"},"modified":"2016-12-16T23:15:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T06:15:57","slug":"to-sell-the-htota-port-the-govt-called-it-a-white-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/12\/17\/to-sell-the-htota-port-the-govt-called-it-a-white-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"To sell the H\u2019tota Port the Govt. called it a white elephant:"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"well well-lg\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"well well-lg\">Because the government was keen to sell the Hambantota Harbour that it claimed it was a white elephant, former president Mahinda Rajapaksa said today.<\/div>\n<div class=\"row inner-text\">\n<p>He said people are aware as to how many ships arrive at the Hambantota Port.<\/p>\n<p>When the two ships seized by the port employees departed another two arrived,\u201d Mr. Rajapaksa said.<br \/>\nHe said his government earned a sufficient income from the port during his tenure and that there was not plan to sell it to foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rajapaksa said during his tenure 24 flights arrived weekly at the Mattala Airport but it was reduced to one by the present government and the warehouse given to Paddy Marketing Board to insult the then government.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"To sell the H\u2019tota Port the Govt  called it a white elephant  MR\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/miA30U97IrE?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>See more at: http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/article\/To-sell-the-H-tota-Port-the-Govt-called-it-a-white-elephant-MR-120807.html#sthash.r1mrn7QI.dpuf<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Because the government was keen to sell the Hambantota Harbour that it claimed it was a white elephant, former president Mahinda Rajapaksa said today. He said people are aware as to how many ships arrive at the Hambantota Port. When the two ships seized by the port employees departed another two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61561","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=61561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}