{"id":94835,"date":"2019-11-06T11:01:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94835"},"modified":"2019-11-06T11:01:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:01:28","slug":"after-the-fast-unto-death-campaign-kashyapa-thera-says-no-trust-in-governments-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/06\/after-the-fast-unto-death-campaign-kashyapa-thera-says-no-trust-in-governments-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"AFTER THE FAST UNTO DEATH CAMPAIGN, KASHYAPA THERA SAYS NO TRUST IN GOVERNMENT\u2019S LETTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Ududumbara Kashyapa Thera who staged a fast unto death campaign against the signing of the Millennium Challenge Cooperation Agreement says that he has no faith in the letters he received from the Prime Minister&rsquo;s Office and the NDF Presidential Candidate Sajith Premadasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Thera who called off the campaign at the Independence Square last night held a media conference today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d9c\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0dd4\u0db8 \u0d9a\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dba\u0dba\u0dd2 - \u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc1\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0db4 \u0dc4\u0dd2\u0db8\u0dd2 \u0d8b\u0db4\u0dc0\u0dcf\u0dc3\u0dba \u0d85\u0dad\u0dca\u0dc4\u0dbb\u0dd3 - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ln_wsIXow_I?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\n\n\n<p>The Thera was requested by several factions including the Maha Sangha, but he insisted that he needed assurance in writing to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, a letter from the SLPP Presidential candidate Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was conveyed to the Thera by MP Bandula Gunawardana last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, UNP former General Secretary Tissa Attanayake handed over two letters to the Thera, one from the Prime Minister\u2019s Office and the other from NDF Candidate Sajith Premadasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, Kashyapa Thera who considered the requests he received from many factions, including some written assurances, called off the fast unto death campaign last night <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru Ududumbara Kashyapa Thera who staged a fast unto death campaign against the signing of the Millennium Challenge Cooperation Agreement says that he has no faith in the letters he received from the Prime Minister&rsquo;s Office and the NDF Presidential Candidate Sajith Premadasa. The Thera who called off the campaign at the Independence Square [&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-94835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94835","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=94835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}