{"id":93369,"date":"2019-09-28T08:17:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T15:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93369"},"modified":"2019-09-28T08:17:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T15:17:59","slug":"unp-has-accepted-contract-to-defeat-sajith-mahindananda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/09\/28\/unp-has-accepted-contract-to-defeat-sajith-mahindananda\/","title":{"rendered":"UNP has accepted \u2018contract\u2019 to defeat Sajith &#8211; Mahindananda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>UPFA MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage says that the UNP\u2019s Presidential Candidate Sajith Premadasa will pose no challenge to the SLPP\u2019s candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the coming presidential poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to reporters following an event in Nawalapitiya today (28), he claimed that there is a serious crisis within the United National Party (UNP) presently and that therefore the UNP itself has accepted the \u2018contract\u2019 to defeat Sajth Premadasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to that, Sajith Premadasa will pose no challenge to Gotabaya Rajapaksa who can secure a resounding victory at the election, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aluthgamage predicted that Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s victory percentage will exceed 52%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana UPFA MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage says that the UNP\u2019s Presidential Candidate Sajith Premadasa will pose no challenge to the SLPP\u2019s candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the coming presidential poll. Speaking to reporters following an event in Nawalapitiya today (28), he claimed that there is a serious crisis within the United National Party (UNP) presently 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-93369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93369","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=93369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}