{"id":94643,"date":"2019-11-01T15:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T22:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94643"},"modified":"2019-11-01T15:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T22:42:40","slug":"sajith-cant-talk-about-catching-thieves-when-they-are-on-his-stage-anura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/01\/sajith-cant-talk-about-catching-thieves-when-they-are-on-his-stage-anura\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajith can\u2019t talk about catching thieves when they are on his stage \u2013 Anura"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The presidential candidate of the National People\u2019s Power (NPP) Anura Kumara Dissanayake says that NDF presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa cannot talk about catching thieves\u201d when the whole team\u201d is on his stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated that if Sri Lanka is to be developed an administration devoid of stealing and wastage is required and that only they can provide such governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during a rally in Chilaw, Dissanayake said that they have individuals who will be better finance ministers than any of the individuals who have held that position so far in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give us power. What is our fault? Is it the fact that we don\u2019t steal?\u201d he questioned.<\/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\u0da7 \u0dc4\u0ddc\u0dbb\u0dd4 \u0d85\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0db1\u0dc0\u0dcf \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dba\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1 \u0db6\u0dd1 - \u0d85\u0db1\u0dd4\u0dbb\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vxg5KO7Xng8?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 The presidential candidate of the National People\u2019s Power (NPP) Anura Kumara Dissanayake says that NDF presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa cannot talk about catching thieves\u201d when the whole team\u201d is on his stage. He stated that if Sri Lanka is to be developed an administration devoid of stealing and wastage is required and that [&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-94643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94643","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=94643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}