{"id":63800,"date":"2017-02-27T14:54:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T20:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63800"},"modified":"2017-02-27T07:46:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T14:46:17","slug":"ravi-challenges-mahinda-to-take-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/27\/ravi-challenges-mahinda-to-take-legal-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake challenges former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to take legal action"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"video-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/index.php?aid=9\" target=\"_blank\">By Binoy Suriyaarachchi<\/a>\u00a0Courtesy \u00a0Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake on Monday challenged the former President to take legal action if a \u2018forged\u2019 signature used in the controversial gazette on a bond auction.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed this view while speaking to reporters at a press conference held in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>However, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa earlier said the gazette on the bond sale is an attempt to mislead the public and plan of the Yahapalana government.<\/p>\n<p>I will be taking legal action in this regard, he said in a statement on Sunday. I\u2019m seeking legal assistance to sue the Finance Ministry and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Rajapaksa said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/39323\/ravi-challenges-mahinda-to-take-legal-action#sthash.dfZKhxfu.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Binoy Suriyaarachchi\u00a0Courtesy \u00a0Adaderana Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake on Monday challenged the former President to take legal action if a \u2018forged\u2019 signature used in the controversial gazette on a bond auction. He expressed this view while speaking to reporters at a press conference held in Colombo. However, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa earlier said the gazette [&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-63800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63800","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=63800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}