{"id":28713,"date":"2014-03-11T20:53:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T00:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=28713"},"modified":"2014-03-11T20:53:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T00:53:51","slug":"president-rajapaksa-telephoned-anura-kumara-dissanayake-four-times-to-congratulate-him-but-jvp-leader-did-not-pick-up-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=28713","title":{"rendered":"President Rajapaksa Telephoned Anura Kumara Dissanayake Four Times to Congratulate him but JVP leader did not pick up phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nBy <\/p>\n<p>Niranjala Ariyanwansha<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), Anura Kumara Dissanayake, said that while he had received four calls from the President on 3 February, presumably to congratulate him on being appointed as the Party Leader the previous day (2 February), he had declined to answer any of them.<\/p>\n<p>He opined that the President&#8217;s motive behind the congratulatory calls was not to actually congratulate him but to do so and get media publicity for it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew when he called four times that this was a publicity stunt. He wants to score points by deceit and to then publish them in the following day&#8217;s newspapers,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say: &#8220;On my birthday in 2013, he called and wished me, and I thought only the two of us knew about our conversation, only to find out differently from that week&#8217;s Sunday newspapers. It is he who talks to the press.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>COURTESY:CEYLON TODAY<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton28713\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D28713&amp;text=President%20Rajapaksa%20Telephoned%20Anura%20Kumara%20Dissanayake%20Four%20Times%20to%20Congratulate%20him%20but%20JVP%20leader%20did%20not...%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 Niranjala Ariyanwansha Leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), Anura Kumara Dissanayake, said that while he had received four calls from the President on 3 February, presumably to congratulate him on being appointed as the Party Leader the previous day (2 February), he had declined to answer any of them. He opined that the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=28713\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;President Rajapaksa Telephoned Anura Kumara Dissanayake Four Times to Congratulate him but JVP leader did not pick up phone&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/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\/28713"}],"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=28713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28714,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28713\/revisions\/28714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}