{"id":36287,"date":"2014-12-17T18:27:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T23:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=36287"},"modified":"2014-12-17T18:27:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T23:27:20","slug":"president-rajapaksa-alleges-that-maithripala-sirisena-has-signed-a-secret-deal-with-the-tamil-national-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=36287","title":{"rendered":"President Rajapaksa Alleges that Maithripala Sirisena has Signed a &#8220;Secret Deal&#8221; with the Tamil National Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nPresident Mahinda Rajapaksa today alleged that the opposition Presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena has signed a secret deal with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Speaking at an election rally in Chilaw, the President claimed that the secret deal was formulated by a team which includes TNA Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are watching these things very closely. These things need to be revealed,\u201d the President added.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the public not to forget what the LTTE did and the fact that they have been defeated militarily.<\/p>\n<p>The President said that pro-LTTE groups operating overseas now want to see him defeated at the Presidential elections next month and want to take him to the Hague.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as the Sri Lankan public are here they will not allow me to be taken to the Hague,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n<p>He also rejected the allegations raised over the development projects in the country saying the opposition claims they could have implemented the same projects for a lesser cost and yet never did it when they were in power.<\/p>\n<p>The President also raised objections to the comments made with regards to his sons adding that there are police complaints against the sons of those who make those allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet children be children,\u201d President Rajapaksa said at the rally.<\/p>\n<p>He said that as President he has kept his promise to the people since 2005 and now the country is developing with investments flowing in. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:DailyFT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton36287\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D36287&amp;text=President%20Rajapaksa%20Alleges%20that%20Maithripala%20Sirisena%20has%20Signed%20a%20%26%238220%3BSecret%20Deal%26%238221%3B%20with%20the%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>President Mahinda Rajapaksa today alleged that the opposition Presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena has signed a secret deal with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). Speaking at an election rally in Chilaw, the President claimed that the secret deal was formulated by a team which includes TNA Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran.<\/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\/36287"}],"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=36287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36288,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36287\/revisions\/36288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}