{"id":29877,"date":"2014-05-17T14:49:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T18:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=29877"},"modified":"2014-05-17T14:49:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T18:49:48","slug":"it-was-wonderful-speaking-to-you-earlier-today-narendra-modi-to-mahinda-rajapaksa-about-their-telephone-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=29877","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was Wonderful Speaking to you Earlier Today&#8221;-Narendra Modi To Mahinda Rajapaksa About Their Telephone Conversation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Indian Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi says he looks forward to strong ties with Sri Lanka after his party, the BJP, won the Indian elections by a  landslide.<\/p>\n<p>Modi tweeted saying it was \u201cwonderful\u201d speaking to President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday after the President telephoned him to wish him on his victory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was wonderful speaking to you earlier today. I look forward to strong relations between Sri Lanka &#038; India,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahinda Rajapaksa had yesterday invited Modi to visit Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>President\u2019s spokesman Mohan Samaranayake had said that the President issued the invitation to Modi after telephoning him to congratulate him on the Indian election victory.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Sri Lanka\u2019s outgoing envoy to India Prasad Kariyawasam was one of the first foreign representatives to react to BJP\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSrilanka welcomes the verdict of people of India. Soon President Rajapaksa will warmly welcome and greet the incoming PM of India\u201d, he had said.<\/p>\n<p>There have been fears on the policy Modi will adopt with regards to Sri Lanka with Tamil politicians like Vaiko by his side during the elections.<\/p>\n<p>During the election campaign Viko had said that a Modi-led Government at the Centre would not repeat the blunders of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government on the Sri Lankan Tamils and fishermen issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guarantee the voters that he will never betray the Tamils,\u201d Vaiko said.<\/p>\n<p>Modi himself had said that with Tamils living all over the world, including in Malayasia, Sri Lanka and Fiji, it should be a priority of the Indian government to take care of their well being and he promised to do so if a BJP-led Government assumed power after the elections. <\/p>\n<p><em>courtesy:Colombo Gazette<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton29877\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D29877&amp;text=%26%238220%3BIt%20was%20Wonderful%20Speaking%20to%20you%20Earlier%20Today%26%238221%3B-Narendra%20Modi%20To%20Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%20About%20Their...%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>Indian Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi says he looks forward to strong ties with Sri Lanka after his party, the BJP, won the Indian elections by a landslide. Modi tweeted saying it was \u201cwonderful\u201d speaking to President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday after the President telephoned him to wish him on his victory.<\/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\/29877"}],"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=29877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29878,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29877\/revisions\/29878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}