{"id":99074,"date":"2020-02-18T17:28:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T00:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99074"},"modified":"2020-02-18T17:28:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T00:28:47","slug":"mahinda-and-maithripala-meet-at-temple-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/02\/18\/mahinda-and-maithripala-meet-at-temple-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda and Maithripala meet at Temple Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A special discussion between Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and former President Maithripala Sirisena was held this evening at Temple Trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting was also attended by senior members of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prevailing political situation in the country and the forthcoming General Election were among the topics of today\u2019s discussion, according to sources.&nbsp;<\/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=\"\u0db8\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf \u0db8\u0ddb\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd2 \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dc1\u0dda\u0dc2 \u0dc4\u0db8\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TeEkvlxMDoA?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>SLPP led by Rajapaksa and Sirisena\u2019s SLFP have decided to contest the general election under the alliance &#8211; Sri Lanka Nidahas Podujana Sandanaya\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has been named as the Leader of the alliance while former President Maithripala Sirisena will serve as its Chairman.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana A special discussion between Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and former President Maithripala Sirisena was held this evening at Temple Trees. The meeting was also attended by senior members of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). The prevailing political situation in the country and the forthcoming General [&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-99074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99074","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=99074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}