{"id":89301,"date":"2019-05-24T16:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T23:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=89301"},"modified":"2019-05-24T16:06:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T23:06:56","slug":"gotabaya-says-modis-victory-is-good-for-south-asias-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/24\/gotabaya-says-modis-victory-is-good-for-south-asias-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotabaya says Modi\u2019s victory is good for South Asia\u2019s security"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, May 24 (newsin.asia): Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is likely to be the Joint Opposition\u2019s candidate in the next Sri Lankan Presidential election, has hailed Narendra Modi\u2019s emphatic victory in the recent Indian Parliamentary elections as a good thing for the growth nationalism and national security consciousness in the South Asian region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Gotabaya-Rajapaksa-3-750x375.jpg\" alt=\"Gotabaya says Modi\u00e2\u0080\u0099s victory is good for South Asia\u00e2\u0080\u0099s security\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nationalism and national security are key factors for South Asian countries,\u201d Gotabaya said in his tweet congratulating Modi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gotabaya, who was Defense Secretary during the last war with the Tamil Tigers, said that the people of India had endorsed Modi\u2019s focus on national security and nationalism and have seen him as the guardian\u201d of their country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National security and nationalism are key factors in India\u2019s journey towards development,\u201d the Lankan leader said as he sent his congratulations and best wishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 24 (newsin.asia): Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is likely to be the Joint Opposition\u2019s candidate in the next Sri Lankan Presidential election, has hailed Narendra Modi\u2019s emphatic victory in the recent Indian Parliamentary elections as a good thing for the growth nationalism and national security consciousness in the South Asian region. Nationalism and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89301","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=89301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}