{"id":73308,"date":"2018-01-01T14:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73308"},"modified":"2018-01-01T14:50:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T21:50:30","slug":"lg-polls-will-be-akin-to-a-referendum-mahinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/01\/01\/lg-polls-will-be-akin-to-a-referendum-mahinda\/","title":{"rendered":"LG polls will be akin to a referendum \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\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the upcoming Local Government election will be akin to a referendum where the people will express their public opinion.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that all voters should utilize their power to vote against a failing regime that has sold almost all government owned land.<\/p>\n<p>Mahinda Rajapaksa expressed these sentiments at his residence yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"People should vote against the govt - Former President\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KJLxC2t6R6s?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\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the upcoming Local Government election will be akin to a referendum where the people will express their public opinion. He further stated that all voters should utilize their power to vote against a failing regime that has sold almost all government owned land. Mahinda Rajapaksa expressed [&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-73308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73308","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=73308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}