{"id":75215,"date":"2018-03-01T14:23:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T21:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=75215"},"modified":"2018-03-01T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T21:23:22","slug":"tirupati-sarana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/03\/01\/tirupati-sarana\/","title":{"rendered":"Tirupati Sarana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Lionel Rajapakse<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapakse has gone to a Pooja at Tirupati Kovil in India again! Is this good news or bad news? Is it going to have a positive or negative effect in voter\u2019s minds?<\/p>\n<p>Some people might say this is nothing to do with his politics and it is a personal matter. Is it?<\/p>\n<p>This may be good news for a minority of people who have a blind faith in god. How about the majority who thinks openly and rationally? Is this a message for them to indicate Mahinda hasn\u2019t changed? I am sure people who voted for SLPP on Feb 10<sup>th<\/sup> believed Mahinda will not repeat his mistakes and they hoped he will correct his weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>How the young voter\u2019s minds going to react when they see their future leader worshipping an unseen god in a foreign Kovil?<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to understand why such a strong person like Mahinda making regular visits to this Indian Kovil. As he once said, he didn\u2019t want any foreign element to interfere with the issues in Sri Lanka. Then, what he is asking from this god in a foreign Kovil? Even in the January 2015 Presidential election where Mahinda lost his presidency, 5.7 million Sri Lankans trusted and voted for him. In the Feb 10<sup>th<\/sup> local government election, Sri Lankans showed they are still there to protect him. So, what is the use of asking any more help from this invisible god?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Rajapakse Former President Mahinda Rajapakse has gone to a Pooja at Tirupati Kovil in India again! Is this good news or bad news? Is it going to have a positive or negative effect in voter\u2019s minds? Some people might say this is nothing to do with his politics and it is a personal matter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75215","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=75215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}