{"id":37603,"date":"2015-01-21T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37603"},"modified":"2015-01-21T22:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T03:10:27","slug":"would-the-attorney-general-be-consulted-if-there-was-a-coup-attempt-asks-ex-defence-secy-gotabhaya-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37603","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Would the Attorney-General be Consulted if there was a Coup Attempt?&#8221; Asks Ex-Defence Secy Gotabhaya Rajapaksa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Lakna Paranamanna <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36320\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GR-12-1714.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36320\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/GR-12-1714-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa -pic: defence.lk\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36320\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa -pic: defence.lk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa rejected allegations of an attempt being made by the Rajapaksa regime to subvert democracy through an \u2018election night coup\u2019 and said they would not have called in the Attorney General if such a plan was being actually hatched at Temple Trees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, the Attorney General was called to Temple Trees but that was to discuss the matter of maintaining law and order such as whether it was necessary to impose a curfew, etc. because the Opposition had publicly stated that it will surround Temple Trees. That was a situation that needed to be addressed,\u201d he said in an exclusive comment to Daily Mirror.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rajapaksa said therefore there was a need to put in place certain measures and provide instructions on the maintenance of law and order during the post-election period.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHe said the AG, the IGP and the service commanders were present at the Temple Trees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AG is entitled to advise the government and if there was an attempt to stage a coup, do you think the AG would have been consulted?\u201d Mr. Rajapaksa asked adding that these allegations about a coup was \u2018false and baseless\u2019 and was being publicized to discredit the former President and other officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s nothing more than a political witch-hunt because it\u2019s very clear that no such thing took place; even before all the results were announced the President and all his staff left Temple Trees,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton37603\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D37603&amp;text=%26%238220%3BWould%20the%20Attorney-General%20be%20Consulted%20if%20there%20was%20a%20Coup%20Attempt%3F%26%238221%3B%20Asks%20Ex-Defence%20Secy...%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 Lakna Paranamanna Former Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa rejected allegations of an attempt being made by the Rajapaksa regime to subvert democracy through an \u2018election night coup\u2019 and said they would not have called in the Attorney General if such a plan was being actually hatched at Temple Trees. \u201cYes, the Attorney General was called &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37603\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;Would the Attorney-General be Consulted if there was a Coup Attempt?&#8221; Asks Ex-Defence Secy Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.&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\/37603"}],"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=37603"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37610,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37603\/revisions\/37610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}