{"id":82052,"date":"2018-10-17T21:01:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T03:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=82052"},"modified":"2018-10-17T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T21:00:50","slug":"sirisena-says-raw-plotting-to-kill-him-the-hindu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/17\/sirisena-says-raw-plotting-to-kill-him-the-hindu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirisena says RAW plotting to kill him \u2013 The Hindu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2018Indian national must be a RAW agent trying to kill me. The Indian PM may not be aware. That is often the case. Trump may not be aware of CIA\u2019s similar moves\u2019<\/p>\n

The Hindu has reported that President Maithripala Sirisena, at Tuesday\u2019s Cabinet meeting, accused India\u2019s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of plotting to assassinate him.<\/p>\n

The Hindu report, dated Oct. 16, says President Sirisena, who was speaking at the weekly Cabinet meeting, told Ministers that the Indian intelligence agency was \u2018trying to kill\u2019 him, but that \u2018Prime Minister Narendra Modi may not be aware of the plan\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Quoting sources present at the discussion, The Hindu has said:<\/p>\n

“We were just shocked when he said it,” a source said, requesting anonymity.<\/p>\n

When contacted for verification, a senior officer at the President\u2019s media unit said:<\/p>\n

“We will verify this and revert.” However, there has been no response till the time of going to print.<\/p>\n

Excerpts of The Hindu report:<\/p>\n

“President Sirisena\u2019s claim comes days before Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe\u2019s scheduled visit to New Delhi, where he will meet Modi to discuss bilateral matters, including key, India-assisted projects on the island.<\/p>\n

“At Tuesday\u2019s meeting, Sirisena reportedly said “the Indian national must be a RAW agent trying to kill me. The Indian PM may not be aware. That is often the case. Trump may not be aware of CIA\u2019s similar moves.”<\/p>\n

“The Hindu, on Tuesday evening, spoke to multiple sources in government \u2014 across political parties \u2014 who attended the meeting, and they confirmed this.<\/p>\n

“Tuesday\u2019s meeting also saw a heated argument between President Sirisena and Wickremesinghe, when a cabinet paper on developing the Colombo Port came up for discussion. Sources said Sirisena vehemently objected to any Indian involvement in upgrading its east container terminal \u2013 a project that New Delhi has been keen to take up.<\/p>\n

“However, Wickremesinghe is said to have countered by saying Colombo had already promised New Delhi on collaborating on the project, and it was important to rope in India at the terminal, given that about 80% of the cargo handled at the transhipment hub was meant for India. He reportedly sought a week\u2019s time to sort out the issue, since he would be meeting Modi soon.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy The Island \u2018Indian national must be a RAW agent trying to kill me. The Indian PM may not be aware. That is often the case. Trump may not be aware of CIA\u2019s similar moves\u2019 The Hindu has reported that President Maithripala Sirisena, at Tuesday\u2019s Cabinet meeting, accused India\u2019s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-sirisena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82052","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=82052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}