{"id":62775,"date":"2017-01-27T12:36:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T19:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62775"},"modified":"2017-01-27T12:37:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T19:37:01","slug":"mr-says-selling-lands-and-ports-to-foreigners-is-a-national-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/27\/mr-says-selling-lands-and-ports-to-foreigners-is-a-national-betrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa  says selling lands and ports to foreigners is a national betrayal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">By Yusuf Ariff\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em>January 27, 2017\u00a0\u00a008:01 pm<\/h2>\n<p class=\"newsDateStamp\">Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that he left the Presidential Palace for Medamulana at 6.00am on January 09 with the intention of retiring and taking a small break at home but it was the people who told him no you can\u2019t retire, come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>But I would also like to tell Maithripala Sirisena that it was you who pulled me back when I was going to retire,\u201d he said, addressing the Joint Opposition rally in Nugegoda today (27).<\/p>\n<p>He said that the country\u2019s people and the leaders are duty bound to protest the historic war victory achieved and that by gathering in such numbers the people are sending a message to the government to put an immediate stop to this fraudulent\u201d constitution, which he claims will split the country.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the government promised to transfer the executive power to the parliament but that it not what it did. They put that aside and are now attempting to bring this fraudulent constitution. That is what we are against.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MR says selling lands and ports to foreigners is a national betrayal\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QJ0l9PHQgTg?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 UPFA Kurunegala District MP said that if a problem exists in the country, it should be resolved through discourse and that they invited the government to discuss this.<\/p>\n<p>But they did not accept our invitation because those abroad told them not to have anything to do with Mahinda Rajapaksa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because we didn\u2019t bow our heads. Because we didn\u2019t kneel down before imperialists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa charged that the incumbent government came to power by deceiving the masses and that now it has made the country indebted. The government has done nothing with the massive loans it obtained, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He accused the government of selling off state institutions, lands and ports in the country to foreigners and termed this a national betrayal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/38830\/mr-says-selling-lands-and-ports-to-foreigners-is-a-national-betrayal#sthash.KSRnykOU.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yusuf Ariff\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana January 27, 2017\u00a0\u00a008:01 pm Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that he left the Presidential Palace for Medamulana at 6.00am on January 09 with the intention of retiring and taking a small break at home but it was the people who told him no you can\u2019t retire, come back.\u201d But I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-politics","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62775","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=62775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}