{"id":77869,"date":"2018-05-30T15:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T22:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=77869"},"modified":"2018-05-30T15:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T22:02:21","slug":"stones-pelted-on-the-hotel-where-ranil-had-dinner-in-jaffna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/05\/30\/stones-pelted-on-the-hotel-where-ranil-had-dinner-in-jaffna\/","title":{"rendered":"Stones Pelted On The Hotel Where Ranil Had Dinner in Jaffna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-type-text field-field-place\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<h2 class=\"field-item odd\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy\u00a0Asiantribune.com<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"field-item odd\">Jaffna, 29 May,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The hotel where Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasighre and his entourage were having dinner yesterday was pelted with stones.<span class=\"image-caption-container image-caption-container-right\"><span class=\"image-caption\">Prime Minister &#8211; Ranil Wickremasinghe<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan Prime Minister arrived in Jaffna on Sunday evening \u2013 27th May and stayed at the Jetwing hotel, located on the Clock tower Rroad, Jaffna.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, he attended two Development Council meetings at the District Secretariat Offices in Kilinochchi and Jaffna respectively.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-caption-container image-caption-container-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"id5929083334240213\" class=\"caption\" title=\"Prime Minister - Ranil Wickremasinghe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asiantribune.com\/sites\/asiantribune.com\/files\/images\/2012\/Ranil%20Wickremasinghe_5_0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" align=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the evening, he attended a dinner organized in an infamous hotel in Jaffna, located on the Hospital Road.<\/p>\n<p>There were numerous allegations that the owner of the hotel, as well as a leading Jaffna \u2013 Colombo \u2013 Jaffna Private luxury bus owner were involved in the smuggling of Kerala Ganja to the South, in big quantities.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Asian Tribune,\u2019 learnt that some individuals brought to the notice of the Prime Minister about the stories surrounding the hotel and told him to cancel the dinner arrangement. However, the dinner took place and by 9.45 in the evening, when there was a power outage, the hotel was pelted with stones.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports the identities of the attackers were not known.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Asian Tribune &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy\u00a0Asiantribune.com Jaffna, 29 May, The hotel where Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasighre and his entourage were having dinner yesterday was pelted with stones.Prime Minister &#8211; Ranil Wickremasinghe Sri Lankan Prime Minister arrived in Jaffna on Sunday evening \u2013 27th May and stayed at the Jetwing hotel, located on the Clock tower Rroad, Jaffna. Yesterday, he attended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77869","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=77869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}