{"id":93061,"date":"2019-09-17T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93061"},"modified":"2019-09-17T14:48:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T21:48:28","slug":"by-telling-the-president-about-rs-2-billion-of-the-lotus-tower-he-has-been-mislead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/09\/17\/by-telling-the-president-about-rs-2-billion-of-the-lotus-tower-he-has-been-mislead\/","title":{"rendered":"By telling the President about Rs. 2 Billion of the Lotus Tower, he has been mislead"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Former Director General of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Anusha Pelpita says that certain officials have mislead the President by providing incorrect information that Rs. 2 billion in funds for the construction of the Lotus Tower have disappeared. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> He made this comment while explaining the statement made by President Maithripala Sirisena at a function held yesterday on behalf of declaring opening the Lotus Tower <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The Lotus Tower at Colombo the tallest tower in all of South Asia of which construction began in the year 2012 was declared open by the President yesterday. During a speech he made at this function the President revealed a fraud of Rs. 2 billion which took place during construction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0da2\u0db1\u0db4\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0db1\u0ddc\u0db8\u0d9c \u0dba\u0dd0\u0dc0\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dcf\u0daf ? - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qjl4cCeSt04?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nAt present there is much talk in society regarding this statement made by the President yesterday.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Accordingly, the former Director General of the TRC Anusha Pelpita has posted an item on his Facebook Account as well explaining the facts regarding this statement made by the President <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nHe has added a photo of the then Chairman of the Tender Board in this country Gotabhaya Jayaratne in discussion with the Chairman of the Alit Company&amp;rsquo;s office in Beijing, China. This discussion had been in connection with the construction of the Lotus Tower.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiru News Former Director General of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Anusha Pelpita says that certain officials have mislead the President by providing incorrect information that Rs. 2 billion in funds for the construction of the Lotus Tower have disappeared. He made this comment while explaining the statement made by President Maithripala Sirisena at a function [&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-93061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93061","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=93061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}