{"id":79735,"date":"2018-07-30T13:26:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T20:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=79735"},"modified":"2018-07-30T13:26:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T20:26:40","slug":"mahinda-is-the-most-popular-politician-in-country-duminda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/07\/30\/mahinda-is-the-most-popular-politician-in-country-duminda\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda is the most popular politician in country \u2013 Duminda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news-author\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/14\/charunya-rajakaruna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charunya Rajakaruna<\/a>\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Minister Duminda Dissanayake says that he also admits that the most popular politician in the country is the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"news-content\">\n<p>He made this statement joining a public meeting held in Mihintalaya area.<\/p>\n<p>He says that, 16 people, who praised President Maithripala Sirisena for 3 years and enjoyed ministerial portfolios, have now joined the opposition in the fear of losing their parliamentarian status after seeing the past LG election results.<\/p>\n<p>SLFP is a party that has a President and every SLFP President had served two terms, Minister pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>SLFP has the strength to make Maithripala Sirisena the President once again, he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Charunya Rajakaruna\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana Minister Duminda Dissanayake says that he also admits that the most popular politician in the country is the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa. He made this statement joining a public meeting held in Mihintalaya area. He says that, 16 people, who praised President Maithripala Sirisena for 3 years and enjoyed ministerial portfolios, have [&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-79735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79735","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=79735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}