{"id":78760,"date":"2018-06-26T23:34:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=78760"},"modified":"2018-06-26T16:01:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T23:01:05","slug":"pm-should-ask-mahendran-to-return-following-mrs-precedent-joint-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/06\/26\/pm-should-ask-mahendran-to-return-following-mrs-precedent-joint-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"PM should ask Mahendran to return following MR\u2019s precedent:  Joint Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Lahiru Pothmulla\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Joint Opposition (JO) today threw a challenge at Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to bring back former Central Bank (CB) Governor Arjuna Mahendran to Sri Lanka like former President Mahinda Rajapaksa vowed to ensure the return of former Sri Lankan envoy to Russia Udayanga Weeratunga.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a news briefing on behalf of the JO,\u00a0former Minister Professor G.L. Peiris said the Prime Minister should secure that Mr Mahendran\u2019s return to deal with the Central Bank Bond Scam and its repercussions spreading like tentacles of an octopus.<\/p>\n<p>The University Grants Commission (UGC) had invested Rs. 1 billion worth of UGC funds in the controversial Bond Transaction. This move had resulted in a loss of Rs.700,000 to Rs.800,000 per one university lecturer in their provident funds.\u00a0Minister Kabir Hashim tried to pin the blame for this on the previous Government, which had relinquished office a long time before that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL) had issued some 10,000 cheques to various personnel as inducements.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/ac4URgS5tI8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahiru Pothmulla\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Joint Opposition (JO) today threw a challenge at Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to bring back former Central Bank (CB) Governor Arjuna Mahendran to Sri Lanka like former President Mahinda Rajapaksa vowed to ensure the return of former Sri Lankan envoy to Russia Udayanga Weeratunga. Addressing a news briefing on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78760","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=78760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}