{"id":64187,"date":"2017-03-14T15:35:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T22:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=64187"},"modified":"2017-03-14T15:35:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T22:35:53","slug":"bandula-sends-letter-of-demand-to-ravi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/03\/14\/bandula-sends-letter-of-demand-to-ravi\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandula sends letter of demand to Ravi"},"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 Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>Legal action will be taken against a state owned newspaper and the Finance Minister for deliberately making false allegations against him, Joint Opposition MP Bandula Gunawardena said.<\/p>\n<p>He made the observation while speaking to reporters at a press conference held in Colombo on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A letter of demand has been sent to both parties over making false allegations with respect to my decision to give evidence in connection with the controversial bond sale,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gunawardena has also sought compensation of Rs.200 million and Rs.300 million from the newspaper and the Finance Minister respectively.<\/p>\n<p>I had no intention of providing false evidence before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/39617\/bandula-sends-letter-of-demand-to-ravi#sthash.I55S9zId.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Binoy Suriyaarachchi\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana Legal action will be taken against a state owned newspaper and the Finance Minister for deliberately making false allegations against him, Joint Opposition MP Bandula Gunawardena said. He made the observation while speaking to reporters at a press conference held in Colombo on Tuesday. A letter of demand has been sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64187","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=64187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}