{"id":74490,"date":"2018-02-07T01:11:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T08:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=74490"},"modified":"2018-02-07T01:11:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T08:11:49","slug":"moragahakanda-project-was-a-dream-mr-denies-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/07\/moragahakanda-project-was-a-dream-mr-denies-sabotage\/","title":{"rendered":"Moragahakanda project was a dream; MR denies sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/3\/yusuf-ariff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yusuf Ariff\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that around 70 percent of the Moragahakanda multi-purpose development project was completed by him.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question during the 360\u00b0 interview on TV Derana, he said that politicians too have dreams like everyone else and that the Moragahakanda project was one of those dreams of his.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that it is even one of the main tasks in the Mahinda Chintana,\u201d his election manifesto.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa said that although false accusations\u201d are being made today, no one had attempted to sabotage the project back then.<\/p>\n<p>He charged that some who have accepted ministerial portfolios are accusing him over everything without talking about their own inabilities.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"360 with Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa ( 05-02-2018 )\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dMiDv19mKLc?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\u00a0Yusuf Ariff\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that around 70 percent of the Moragahakanda multi-purpose development project was completed by him. Responding to a question during the 360\u00b0 interview on TV Derana, he said that politicians too have dreams like everyone else and that the Moragahakanda project was one of those dreams of his. [&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-74490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74490","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=74490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}