{"id":30492,"date":"2014-06-10T18:06:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T22:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=30492"},"modified":"2014-06-10T18:06:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T22:06:50","slug":"hundreds-of-sri-lankans-protest-outside-colombo-indian-high-commission-against-narendra-modi-forinterference-in-domestic-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=30492","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Sri Lankans Protest Outside Colombo Indian High Commission Against Narendra Modi for&#8221;Interference in Domestic Affairs&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Meera Srinivasan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of protestors gathered outside the Indian High Commission here on Tuesday, demonstrating against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for \u201cinterfering in Sri Lanka\u2019s domestic affairs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Holding placards that read \u201cModi don\u2019t be foolish,\u201d the protesters shouted slogans outside the mission located on the sea-facing Galle Road.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The protest comes after Mr. Modi urged Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to deliver on the promises on post-war reconciliation, at the bilateral meeting held in New Delhi last month.<\/p>\n<p>According to reliable sources, Mr. Modi\u2019s message did not go down well with Colombo which, reportedly, did not expect a \u201cstrong message\u201d from the newly elected Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters led by the National Freedom Front \u2014 a hard-line Sinhala party and partner in Mr. Rajapaksa\u2019s ruling coalition \u2014 also shouted slogans against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Sri Lankan government lashed out at Ms. Jayalalithaa for her allegations of a \u201cpogrom and genocide\u201d against ethnic Tamils during the final stages of separatist war.<\/p>\n<p><em>COURTESY:THE HINDU<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton30492\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D30492&amp;text=Hundreds%20of%20Sri%20Lankans%20Protest%20Outside%20Colombo%20Indian%20High%20Commission%20Against%20Narendra%20Modi...%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 Meera Srinivasan Hundreds of protestors gathered outside the Indian High Commission here on Tuesday, demonstrating against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for \u201cinterfering in Sri Lanka\u2019s domestic affairs\u201d. Holding placards that read \u201cModi don\u2019t be foolish,\u201d the protesters shouted slogans outside the mission located on the sea-facing Galle Road.<\/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\/30492"}],"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=30492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30493,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30492\/revisions\/30493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}