{"id":27899,"date":"2014-02-05T20:16:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T01:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=27899"},"modified":"2014-02-05T22:49:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T03:49:09","slug":"president-rajapaksa-wishes-tna-leader-sampanthan-for-81st-birthday-and-invites-him-for-direct-talks-on-tamil-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=27899","title":{"rendered":"President Rajapaksa Wishes  TNA Leader Sampanthan For 81st Birthday and Invites Him For Direct Talks on Tamil Issue."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nBy <\/p>\n<p>Ananth Palakidnar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/RS12712.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/RS12712-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"RS12712\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Mahinda Rajapaksa, while extending birthday greetings to Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Leader, R. Sampanthan, has invited him for direct talks over the Tamil question.<br \/>\n <!--more--><br \/>\nAccording to sources, the TNA Leader, who turned 81 yesterday, is currently on a private visit in India and the President had invited him to have direct talks once the TNA Leader returned to Colombo from India.<\/p>\n<p>The President has a habit of greeting the TNA Leader every year on his birthday, TNA sources added.<br \/>\nSampanthan, a prominent leader from the Trincomalee District, entered Parliament from the TULF in 1977 at the age of 45.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the TNA is planning to stage a mass protest in three stages in the Mannar District.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Ceylon Today<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton27899\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D27899&amp;text=President%20Rajapaksa%20Wishes%20%20TNA%20Leader%20Sampanthan%20For%2081st%20Birthday%20and%20Invites%20Him%20For%20Direct%20Talks%20on%20Tamil...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ananth Palakidnar President Mahinda Rajapaksa, while extending birthday greetings to Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Leader, R. Sampanthan, has invited him for direct talks over the Tamil question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27912,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27899\/revisions\/27912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}