{"id":65296,"date":"2017-04-17T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=65296"},"modified":"2017-04-17T15:35:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T22:35:29","slug":"minister-of-ports-riding-on-nasheed-of-maldives-disposed-ex-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/04\/17\/minister-of-ports-riding-on-nasheed-of-maldives-disposed-ex-president\/","title":{"rendered":"MINISTER OF PORTS RIDING ON NASHEED OF MALDIVES \u2013DISPOSED EX PRESIDENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I was passing by \u00a0the Sri Lanka Ports Authority and noted that \u00a0a banner was hung \u00a0with a very unusual and \u00a0controversial content ,It carried a large photograph \u00a0of Nasheed \u2013the ousted ex president of Maldives and a heading which say  The way\u00a0 Port Minister acts ( bearing in mind about the country ) when\u00a0 Hambantota Port is handed over to Chinese\u00a0 is\u00a0 excellent \u00a0 .-Nasheed !!<\/p>\n<p>I was wondering whether a powerful minister in the current government which is maintaining a cordial relationship with current Maldivian government headed by \u00a0Gayoom ,who is on\u00a0 a Collison course with Nasheed ,is allowed to have such a banner in the port \u00a0under his control ?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/nasheed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/nasheed.jpg 646w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/nasheed-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nasheed may have been an elected president who was convicted of an offence as stated below<\/p>\n<p><em>The former President was sentenced to serve 13 years in jail after having being proven guilty of illegally detaining Criminal Court Judge Abdullah Mohamed in Girifushi island by using MNDF officials.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this backdrop name of such a convicted ex-president\u2019s should not be used by any Sri Lankan minister which may undermine the cordial relationship between the two governments.<\/p>\n<p>This why my snippet published recently talked about Yahaplana Cart pull in many directions\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera I was passing by \u00a0the Sri Lanka Ports Authority and noted that \u00a0a banner was hung \u00a0with a very unusual and \u00a0controversial content ,It carried a large photograph \u00a0of Nasheed \u2013the ousted ex president of Maldives and a heading which say The way\u00a0 Port Minister acts ( bearing in mind about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65296","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=65296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}