{"id":36824,"date":"2014-12-30T15:07:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T20:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=36824"},"modified":"2014-12-30T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T20:21:04","slug":"salman-khan-donates-300-lenses-to-visually-challenged-in-sri-lanka-with-jacqueline-fernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=36824","title":{"rendered":"Salman Khan donates 300 lenses to visually challenged in Sri Lanka with Jacqueline Fernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mumbai: Bollywood star Salman Khan visited Sri Lanka on Monday to prop up the incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s re-election bid, the first Indian actor to be roped in for a poll campaign in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Khan, along with Sri Lankan-born Jacqueline Fernandez and five other Bollywood performers are set to appear on stage in support of Rajapaksa.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36832\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/archives\/36824\/sk-123014-nr\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36832\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36832\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SK-123014-NR-600x420.jpg\" alt=\"pic via: facebook.com\/NamalSL\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" class=\"size-large wp-image-36832\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">pic via: facebook.com\/NamalSL<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The duo participated in a health camp there and Salman donated 300 lenses for cataract operations for the visually challenged.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nJacqueline took to Twitter to post a picture and share the good news. She posted, \u201c\u202a#\u200esalmankhan doing what he does best! @beinghumanclothing giving sight to those who can\u2019t see, donates 300 lenses!! #\u200esrilanka#\u200ehome #\u200ehappy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Khan was invited to participate in the election campaign by parliamentarian and Rajapaksa\u2019s son Namal, the local website Asianmirror reported.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time a Bollywood actor has been roped in for a poll campaign, analysts said.<\/p>\n<p>Beset by mass defections from his ruling coalition to the opposition challenger Maithripala Sirisena, Rajapaksa is believed to have suffered a loss of popular support. The Bollywood stars are expected to boost the sagging morale of the incumbent\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Khan is not the only Indian influence in the Rajapaksa campaign. It has been reported that Arvind Gupta, a BJP social media guru, is helping the incumbent in the social media side of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential election will take place on 8 January as Rajapaksa called the election two years ahead of schedule in an apparent attempt to seek fresh mandate before his party\u2019s popularity tumbles further, after dropping over 21% in September local elections.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy: DailyFT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton36824\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D36824&amp;text=Salman%20Khan%20donates%20300%20lenses%20to%20visually%20challenged%20in%20Sri%20Lanka%20with%20Jacqueline%20Fernandez&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>Mumbai: Bollywood star Salman Khan visited Sri Lanka on Monday to prop up the incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s re-election bid, the first Indian actor to be roped in for a poll campaign in the country. Khan, along with Sri Lankan-born Jacqueline Fernandez and five other Bollywood performers are set to appear on stage in support of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=36824\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Salman Khan donates 300 lenses to visually challenged in Sri Lanka with Jacqueline Fernandez&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\/36824"}],"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=36824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36834,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36824\/revisions\/36834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}