{"id":73222,"date":"2017-12-29T13:37:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T20:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73222"},"modified":"2017-12-29T13:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T20:37:39","slug":"people-cannot-be-swayed-by-false-promises-mahinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/12\/29\/people-cannot-be-swayed-by-false-promises-mahinda\/","title":{"rendered":"People cannot be swayed by false promises \u2013 Mahinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/12\/sanchith-karunaratna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanchith Karunaratna<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the people will not support the government even though certain leaders of the opposition have crossed over.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media following his visit to the Gunasinghepura Purvaramaya the former President stated that certain members of the opposition have been tricked by the government with false promises.<\/p>\n<p>He however stated that the people cannot be tricked in the same way and that the general public will not join hands and collectively support the government.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"There are major issues in the country at present - Former President\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/91ERJMd3nh4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Sanchith Karunaratna\u00a0\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the people will not support the government even though certain leaders of the opposition have crossed over. Speaking to the media following his visit to the Gunasinghepura Purvaramaya the former President stated that certain members of the opposition have been tricked by the government with false [&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-73222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73222","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=73222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}