{"id":93571,"date":"2019-10-04T17:11:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T00:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93571"},"modified":"2019-10-04T17:11:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T00:11:43","slug":"not-only-gota-entire-country-was-exonerated-mr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/04\/not-only-gota-entire-country-was-exonerated-mr\/","title":{"rendered":"Not only Gota, entire country was exonerated: MR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Lahiru Pothmulla <\/strong>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Responding to the Appeal Court\u2019s decision to dismiss the petition against SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s citizenship, SLPP Leader and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said not only Gotabaya but the entire country had been exonerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the entire country was exonerated. Not only Gotabaya but the entire country was exonerated. (Nidos kota Nidahas karala thiyanawa),\u201d he told journalists at the Opposition Leader\u2019s Office soon after the decision was announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the decision showed the independence of the judiciary and the faith they had in the judicial system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sound legal arguments were made by the legal team including counsel Romesh De Silva PC and Gamini Marapana PC,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked about MP Chamal Rajapaksa making a cash deposit to contest the presidential poll, Mr. Rajapaksa said, That was a backup plan. In case the court decision was different, we couldn\u2019t abandon our people. We were getting ready to face any decision.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror Responding to the Appeal Court\u2019s decision to dismiss the petition against SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s citizenship, SLPP Leader and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said not only Gotabaya but the entire country had been exonerated. I think the entire country was exonerated. Not only Gotabaya but the entire [&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-93571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93571","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=93571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}