{"id":64558,"date":"2017-03-25T14:57:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T21:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=64558"},"modified":"2017-03-25T14:57:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T21:57:37","slug":"the-law-is-helpless-today-mahinda-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/03\/25\/the-law-is-helpless-today-mahinda-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"The law is helpless today \u2013 Mahinda Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"newsDateStamp\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Yusuf Ariff \u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"newsDateStamp\">March 25, 2017\u00a0\u00a007:54 pm<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsDateStamp\">Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the reason for soaring rice prices and cost of living is due to the \u2018stupid\u2019 decisions and carelessness of the government.<\/p>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>Do you get rice for Rs 45 &#8211; 60 now? How much is it now? It is Rs 110 &#8211; 130. Why has this situation risen? Why did the cost of living increase in the country?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>It is due to the carelessness of the government and the stupid decisions taken with regard to agriculture, he said, while addressing the Joint Opposition rally \u2018Peraliyaka Peramaga\u2019 in Galle today (25).<\/p>\n<p>That is why people now have to keep looking at the port until ships come with rice in order to eat, he charged.<\/p>\n<p>He also accused the government of bending the law.<\/p>\n<p>The law is helpless today. Wimal Weerawansa has still not received bail. He is in a prison cell. What is the government expecting?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They only want the FCID, CID and prison to rule the country. They want to put everyone in prison and rule the country. They don\u2019t understand that this will blow up,\u201d Rajapaksa said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that some politicians in the government claim that \u2018Mahinda is making deals with Ranil\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>These are the deals. Those inside are making deals and pointing the finger at others,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/39826\/the-law-is-helpless-today-mahinda-rajapaksa#sthash.v9fslXAC.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yusuf Ariff \u00a0Courtesy Adaderana March 25, 2017\u00a0\u00a007:54 pm Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the reason for soaring rice prices and cost of living is due to the \u2018stupid\u2019 decisions and carelessness of the government. Do you get rice for Rs 45 &#8211; 60 now? How much is it now? It is Rs 110 [&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-64558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64558","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=64558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}