{"id":81460,"date":"2018-09-27T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81460"},"modified":"2018-09-27T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T22:57:00","slug":"national-list-mp-s-b-dissanayake-points-finger-at-unp-alleged-assassination-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/27\/national-list-mp-s-b-dissanayake-points-finger-at-unp-alleged-assassination-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"National List MP S.B. Dissanayake  points finger at UNP Alleged assassination plot:"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Text and pic by Kamal Bogoda\u00a0Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Alleging that the plot to assassinate President Maithripala Sirisena and former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was a political conspiracy, UPFA dissident and National List MP S.B. Dissanayake yesterday alleged that the UNP had a hand in it.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the media at UPFA National List MP Tilanga Sumathipala\u2019s residence at the Ananda Rajakaruna Mawatha, Borella, Dissanayake alleged that an impartial police inquiry was unlikely as long as the UNP held the law and order portfolio.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.island.lk\/modules\/modPublication\/article_title_images\/1918654924alleged.jpg\" alt=\"article_image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dissanayake said that the law and order portfolio should be brought under President Sirisena, who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>Dissanayake said that the assassination of President Sirisena and former Defence Secretary Rajapaksa, tipped to be the JO\u2019s presidential candidate would be advantageous to the UNP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text and pic by Kamal Bogoda\u00a0Courtesy The Island Alleging that the plot to assassinate President Maithripala Sirisena and former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was a political conspiracy, UPFA dissident and National List MP S.B. Dissanayake yesterday alleged that the UNP had a hand in it. Addressing the media at UPFA National List MP Tilanga Sumathipala\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81460","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=81460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}