{"id":84191,"date":"2018-12-16T06:42:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=84191"},"modified":"2018-12-16T06:42:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T13:42:13","slug":"attitude-of-arm-chair-pundits-and-benefits-delivered-by-prime-minister-mahinda-rajapakse-in-a-short-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/12\/16\/attitude-of-arm-chair-pundits-and-benefits-delivered-by-prime-minister-mahinda-rajapakse-in-a-short-period\/","title":{"rendered":"ATTITUDE OF ARM CHAIR PUNDITS AND BENEFITS DELIVERED BY PRIME MINISTER MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE IN A SHORT PERIOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>BY M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There are several arm chair political pundits indirectly expressing happiness on the departure of Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0 after a very short period in office.\u00a0 These are the same people who advocated that Mahinda was greedy to grab power to escape legal actions against him and his family.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If that is the case, why Mahinda gracefully left office, exactly the same way he left office of the President even before the final results were released.\u00a0 These CLAYTON MAHINDA SUPPORTERS are disgruntled JVP and UNP\u00a0 supporters.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, these arm chair political pundits have not complained even once when Ranil refused to leave Temple Trees after he was sacked from Office.\u00a0 We need to\u00a0 be extremely cautious of these arm chair writers and pundits.<\/p>\n<p>During this short period, Mahinda addressed most pressing question of the farming community by providing fertilizer at Rs 500.\u00a0 The Farming community is jubilant, the result of the decision will increase the production volume in the primary industries and reduce the prices.\u00a0 Similarly, Mahinda dismantled the ad-hoc fuel pricing formula\u00a0 and reduced the fuel prices 3 times within a short period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apart from these, he was able to tell TNA that he will never come to terms with them where the ultimate result will be division of the country.\u00a0\u00a0 Ranil has reconfirmed his previous commitment to divide the country, as disclosed by the former General Secretary of the UNP Mr Tissa Attanayake.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mahinda displayed that he is now much tougher than last time. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is now time for the SLPP to continue with the grass root build up, as his most recent decisions had enhanced the value of Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A massive campaign must be undertaken to expose any attempts to divide the country by Ranil \u00a0Wickremasinghe.\u00a0 Ranil will decrease the cost of living to increase his popularity and simultaneously deceive the masses whilst bringing new laws to satisfy the extreme Tamils and Muslims for the division of the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY M D P DISSANAYAKE There are several arm chair political pundits indirectly expressing happiness on the departure of Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0 after a very short period in office.\u00a0 These are the same people who advocated that Mahinda was greedy to grab power to escape legal actions against him and his family.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If that is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84191","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=84191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}