{"id":71798,"date":"2017-11-19T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=71798"},"modified":"2017-11-19T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T22:18:09","slug":"speaker-should-probe-members-of-cope-committee-mahinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/11\/19\/speaker-should-probe-members-of-cope-committee-mahinda\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker should probe members of COPE committee \u2013 Mahinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news-author\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/12\/sanchith-karunaratna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanchith Karunaratna\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"news-content\">\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the speaker of parliament should investigate the undocumented communication between the members of the COPE committee and those accused of being involved in the Central bank bond scandal.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that the behavior of those parliamentarians has destroyed the faith bestowed in the COPE committee.<\/p>\n<p>The former President expressed these sentiments following his visit of the Asgiriya chief prelates earlier today (19).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Sanchith Karunaratna\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the speaker of parliament should investigate the undocumented communication between the members of the COPE committee and those accused of being involved in the Central bank bond scandal. He further stated that the behavior of those parliamentarians has destroyed the faith bestowed in the COPE committee. [&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-71798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71798","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=71798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}