{"id":87520,"date":"2019-04-23T15:19:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T22:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87520"},"modified":"2019-04-23T15:19:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T22:19:41","slug":"who-is-this-powerful-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/23\/who-is-this-powerful-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is this powerful politician?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>S.Akurugoda<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>As per the\nheadline news item appeared in <em>The Island<\/em>\n&nbsp;dated 23<sup>rd<\/sup> April, Petroleum Resource Development Minister Kabir\nHashim has revealed that following some incidents in the Mawanella area,\nIntelligence had unearthed cache of explosives at Lacktowatta in\nWanathawilluwa, Puttalam. During the raid two key suspects were captured.\nHowever, due to the intervention of a powerful politician, they had been\nreleased and one of them had been involved in Sunday\u2019s attacks, the Minister\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The powerful\npolitician who could interfere with an investigation carried by police should\ndefinitely be one of the politicians attached to the current Ranil-Sirisena\nadministration. The release of the captured suspects has caused a serious\ndisaster and hence the citizens of the country have a right to know who this\npowerful politician is and what his\ninterests are with those criminals? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As The Island\neditorial&nbsp; \u2018 Kabir\u2019s bombshell\u2018 quite\nrightly suggested, a high-level probe should be conducted into the very serious allegation made\nby a&nbsp; Minister of the same ruling clan and\nname the politician who intervened to secure the release of the two\nhigh-profile suspects from police custody.&nbsp;\nAction must be taken to arrest him immediately to prevent interference with\nthe current investigation and further loss of lives of innocent people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S.Akurugoda As per the headline news item appeared in The Island &nbsp;dated 23rd April, Petroleum Resource Development Minister Kabir Hashim has revealed that following some incidents in the Mawanella area, Intelligence had unearthed cache of explosives at Lacktowatta in Wanathawilluwa, Puttalam. During the raid two key suspects were captured. However, due to the intervention of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s-akurugoda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87520","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=87520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}