{"id":29865,"date":"2014-05-17T03:46:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T07:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=29865"},"modified":"2014-05-17T03:46:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T07:46:14","slug":"mahinda-rajapaksa-congratulates-narendra-modi-and-invites-indian-pm-to-undertake-state-visit-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=29865","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Rajapaksa Congratulates Narendra Modi and Invites Indian PM to Undertake State Visit to Sri Lanka."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY<\/p>\n<p>MEERA SRINIVASAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hours before the official verdict on the Indian polls was out on Friday, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa called BJP leader Narendra Modi, congratulating him for the BJP\u2019s victory in Indian elections.<\/p>\n<p>He also invited Mr. Modi on a state visit, according to a tweet from President Rajapaksa\u2019s official twitter account.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take this opportunity to congratulate the Indian people on the conclusion of a successful and peaceful general election,\u201d he said, in an exclusive statement released to The Hindu by his office on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Terming the Indian elections \u201ca great example of the traditions of democracy that we cherish in South Asia\u201d, President Rajapaksa said, \u201cDespite the enormity of this democratic exercise, the election took place in the absence of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congratulating the Bharatiya Janata Party for a landslide victory, he said it was only through a stable government that peace, development and economic prosperity can be realised. \u201cIndia and Sri Lanka have always shared good relations, and I look forward to working closely with the new administration,\u201d he said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p><em>COURTESY:THE HINDU<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton29865\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D29865&amp;text=Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%20Congratulates%20Narendra%20Modi%20and%20Invites%20Indian%20PM%20to%20Undertake%20State%20Visit%20to%20Sri%20Lanka.&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 MEERA SRINIVASAN Hours before the official verdict on the Indian polls was out on Friday, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa called BJP leader Narendra Modi, congratulating him for the BJP\u2019s victory in Indian elections. He also invited Mr. Modi on a state visit, according to a tweet from President Rajapaksa\u2019s official twitter account.<\/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\/29865"}],"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=29865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29866,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29865\/revisions\/29866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}