{"id":80751,"date":"2018-09-07T04:59:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T11:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=80751"},"modified":"2018-09-07T04:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T11:59:41","slug":"jo-accuses-unp-mp-of-poisoning-milk-packets-given-to-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/07\/jo-accuses-unp-mp-of-poisoning-milk-packets-given-to-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"JO accuses UNP MP of \u2018poisoning\u2019 milk packets given to supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Joint Opposition today accused a Parliamentarian of the United National Party (UNP) of \u2018poisoning\u2019 the milk packets given to their supporters at the \u2018Jana Balaya Colombata\u2019 rally on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>MP Mujibur Rahman is behind the incident of group of participants of Jana Balaya being hospitalized due to food poisoning after consuming milk packets, which had been distributed at the rally, claimed MP Shehan Semasinghe.<\/p>\n<p>A group of unidentified persons had passed on \u2018poisoned\u2019 milk packets to several protestors at the Jana Balaya rally, he said during a press conference held in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>Further commenting, MP Semasinghe said that he strongly deplored causing harm of that sort to the famished masses that had joined the rally.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that MP Mujibur Rahuman has responded to this allegation against him at the parliament today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Joint Opposition today accused a Parliamentarian of the United National Party (UNP) of \u2018poisoning\u2019 the milk packets given to their supporters at the \u2018Jana Balaya Colombata\u2019 rally on Wednesday. MP Mujibur Rahman is behind the incident of group of participants of Jana Balaya being hospitalized due to food poisoning after consuming milk [&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-80751","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\/80751","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=80751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}