{"id":92632,"date":"2019-08-26T15:16:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T22:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=92632"},"modified":"2019-08-26T15:16:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T22:16:35","slug":"slpp-youth-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/26\/slpp-youth-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"SLPP Youth Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Politics<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Mahinda&#8217;s\nmessage is to look at Lanka history, and he pointed out how EA Goonesinghe who\nfought for universal suffrage for Sri Lanka was sent home after he won it from\nthe forces of Imperialism, and similarly, CWW Kannangara who fought for free\neducation was sent home by the same forces. He also reminded the young people\nof what happened in 1971, and 1989, and he pointed out how ironic it is that\nthe \u2018torturers and the tortured\u2019 of that time have got together now!&nbsp; He\nsaid the same forces that acted then are still acting now. He called on the\nyouth to not forget history and to look far ahead and not look short term. He\nreceived a standing ovation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gota spoke to the youth of Lanka on how to move forward. He explained their short term plan and the long term plan. He too received a standing ovation. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/GprMw9gDHkc\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Mahinda&#8217;s message is to look at Lanka history, and he pointed out how EA Goonesinghe who fought for universal suffrage for Sri Lanka was sent home after he won it from the forces of Imperialism, and similarly, CWW Kannangara who fought for free education was sent home by the same forces. He also reminded [&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-92632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92632","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=92632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}