{"id":79975,"date":"2018-08-07T13:55:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T20:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=79975"},"modified":"2018-08-07T13:55:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T20:55:05","slug":"lankan-president-sirisena-says-karunanidhis-death-pushed-him-into-deep-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/08\/07\/lankan-president-sirisena-says-karunanidhis-death-pushed-him-into-deep-sorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Lankan President Sirisena says Karunanidhi\u2019s death pushed him into deep sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Colombo, August 7 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Tuesday expressed\u00a0 deep sorrow\u201d on the death of the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.Karunanidhi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In a tweet in Tamil, Sirisena said: The passing away of the former Chief Minister and senior political leader M.Karunanidhi pushed me into deep sorrow. I send my deepest condolences to his grieving family and supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Sirisena had sent the Ceylon Workers\u2019 Congress leaders Arumugan Thondaman and Senthil Thondaman to Chennai to call on the ailing leader at Kauvery Hospital with a message wishing the ailing Tamil leader speedy recovery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Lankan President Sirisena says Karunanidhi\u2019s death pushed him into deep sorrow\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Sirisena.jpg?fit=701%2C433&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lankan President Sirisena says Karunanidhi\u2019s death pushed him into deep sorrow\" width=\"398\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karunanidhi, who had been Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu several times from the late 1960s onwards, died at 94 after a prolonged illness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 7 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Tuesday expressed\u00a0 deep sorrow\u201d on the death of the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.Karunanidhi. In a tweet in Tamil, Sirisena said: The passing away of the former Chief Minister and senior political leader M.Karunanidhi pushed me into deep sorrow. I send my [&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-79975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79975","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=79975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}