{"id":94944,"date":"2019-11-08T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T23:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94944"},"modified":"2019-11-08T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T23:23:08","slug":"can-he-do-as-president-what-he-couldnt-do-as-minister-gota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/08\/can-he-do-as-president-what-he-couldnt-do-as-minister-gota\/","title":{"rendered":"Can he do as president, what he couldn\u2019t do as minister: Gota"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Lahiru Pothmulla <\/strong>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\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=\"If he didn\u2019t perform well as a powerful Minister, can we trust him to perform as the President: Gota\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SxTIJ_uJZIw?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>Taking a swipe at his opponent Sajith Premadasa, SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa said yesterday it was ridiculous for someone who as a powerful minister had failed to deliver on his promises to deliver them when he becomes president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a rally in Ratnapura yesterday, he said he fulfilled all responsibilities entrusted to him as the defence secretary and the secretary of the urban development ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though I was not a minister, I fulfilled the responsibilities given to me. It is ridiculous to note that someone who as a powerful minister and couldn\u2019t deliver on his pledges, today promising to do so after becoming president,&#8221; Mr. Rajapaksa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said it was a joke for that minister to pledge to uphold the rule of law after becoming the president when his government failed to uphold the rule of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IGP said he can bend the law and the Attorney General Department&#8217;s higher officials said they can make and break laws at a time when the minister is still in the Cabinet,\u201d Mr. Rajapaksa said adding that the entire Cabinet should be held responsible for the Easter Sunday attack and no one in it can say they could do a better job and ensure national security after becoming the president.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror Taking a swipe at his opponent Sajith Premadasa, SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa said yesterday it was ridiculous for someone who as a powerful minister had failed to deliver on his promises to deliver them when he becomes president. Speaking at a rally in Ratnapura yesterday, he said he [&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-94944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94944","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=94944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}