{"id":93278,"date":"2019-09-24T15:23:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T22:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93278"},"modified":"2019-09-24T15:23:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T22:23:32","slug":"attempt-to-make-deposit-for-sajith-ajith-turned-away-by-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/09\/24\/attempt-to-make-deposit-for-sajith-ajith-turned-away-by-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempt to make deposit for Sajith Ajith turned away by EC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By J.T. de Silva <\/strong>Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Non-Cabinet Minister Ajith P. Perera, who had gone to the Election Commission to pay the cash deposit on behalf of UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa to contest the coming Presidential Poll, had been forced to return abruptly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Sources from the Commission said, Perera had failed to furnish the letter of consent from the UNP General Secretary, which is a requirement when depositing cash for contestants from recognised political parties. This had prompted him to leave in haste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>These sources added, though Perera had met Chairman of the Commission Mahinda Deshapriya, he had been unable to make the cash deposit due to the want of the letter of consent from the Party General Secretary.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By J.T. de Silva Courtesy Ceylon Today Non-Cabinet Minister Ajith P. Perera, who had gone to the Election Commission to pay the cash deposit on behalf of UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa to contest the coming Presidential Poll, had been forced to return abruptly. Sources from the Commission said, Perera had failed to furnish the [&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-93278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93278","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=93278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}