{"id":37123,"date":"2015-01-10T17:19:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T22:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37123"},"modified":"2015-01-10T17:19:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T22:19:03","slug":"mahinda-rajapaksas-message-and-request-to-the-people-of-sri-lanka-prior-to-quitting-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37123","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Rajapaksa&#8217;s Message and Request to the People of Sri Lanka Prior to Quitting as President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My dear people,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today I accept with great respect the people\u2019s verdict. <\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, I hand over the post of President that I held to Mr Maithripala Sirisena today.<\/p>\n<p> In 2005, as per the Mahinda Chinthana, I stated that I was not the ruler of this country but only its temporary custodian. And just as I fulfilled all that I promised in Mahinda Chinthana, this is the moment to give credence to that statement. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As I leave the post of custodian, I have a request to make from all the citizens of this country. <\/p>\n<p>Resting in the good earth of our land are thousands of children who gave their lives to unite our nation and expel the fear of death from your minds. I ask you to protect all those in the security forces, the Police and the Civil Defence Force.<\/p>\n<p> My dear children, sons and daughters all, I have united a beautiful country for you. I wish without reservation all strength and courage to the new President to rule this country in a way that the mothers of our land will be without tears. <\/p>\n<p>I offer with the greatest affection to him the children who were once under my charge with great affection.<\/p>\n<p> May the future be bright for all and may you be blessed by the Noble Triple Gem! <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Nation<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton37123\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D37123&amp;text=Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%26%238217%3Bs%20Message%20and%20Request%20to%20the%20People%20of%20Sri%20Lanka%20Prior%20to%20Quitting%20as%20President&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>My dear people, Today I accept with great respect the people\u2019s verdict. Accordingly, I hand over the post of President that I held to Mr Maithripala Sirisena today. In 2005, as per the Mahinda Chinthana, I stated that I was not the ruler of this country but only its temporary custodian. And just as I &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37123\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Mahinda Rajapaksa&#8217;s Message and Request to the People of Sri Lanka Prior to Quitting as President&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\/37123"}],"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=37123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37124,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37123\/revisions\/37124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}