{"id":94361,"date":"2019-10-27T14:09:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T21:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94361"},"modified":"2019-10-27T14:09:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T21:09:43","slug":"those-planning-to-vote-for-sajith-might-as-well-give-it-to-gotabaya-anura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/27\/those-planning-to-vote-for-sajith-might-as-well-give-it-to-gotabaya-anura\/","title":{"rendered":"Those planning to vote for Sajith might as well give it to Gotabaya &#8211; Anura"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>National People\u2019s Power (NPP) Presidential Candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayaka says that fellow presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa\u2019s stage is full of extremists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, one can never defeat terrorism by voting for the National Democratic Front (NDF) candidate, stated Dissanayaka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He mentioned this addressing a public meeting held in Eravur, Batticaloa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further speaking, he pointed out that the Easter attacks was an attack on Muslims as well as Catholics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dissanayaka declared that he will never join racists or extremists to his political campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further said that the safety of the country cannot be ensured before defeating extremism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Sajith Premadasa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa are good friends, those who are planning to vote for Sajith might as well give it to Gotabaya, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Leader said.<\/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\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0dc3\u0da2\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dda \u0dc0\u0dda\u0daf\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc0 \u0d85\u0db1\u0dca\u0dad\u0dc0\u0dcf\u0daf\u0dd3\u0db1\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0db4\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dcf... \u0d85\u0db1\u0dd4\u0dbb\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8WMlXT06MR0?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana National People\u2019s Power (NPP) Presidential Candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayaka says that fellow presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa\u2019s stage is full of extremists. Therefore, one can never defeat terrorism by voting for the National Democratic Front (NDF) candidate, stated Dissanayaka. He mentioned this addressing a public meeting held in Eravur, Batticaloa. Further speaking, he pointed [&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-94361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94361","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=94361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}