{"id":39271,"date":"2015-03-07T02:13:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T07:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=39271"},"modified":"2015-03-07T20:04:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T01:04:20","slug":"i-am-happily-prepared-to-face-any-punishment-with-pride-for-anything-i-did-for-the-country-mahinda-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=39271","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I am Happily Prepared to face any Punishment  with Pride for Right Thing  I did for the Country&#8221;-Mahinda Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nBy Dasun Edirisinghe and Cyril Wimalasurendra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday that he would listen to the people\u2019s voice and do what they wanted him to do for the country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36861\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MRTD.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36861\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MRTD-300x277.jpg\" alt=\" Cartoon by: Hasantha Wijenayake\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36861\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cartoon by: Hasantha Wijenayake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In his statement to the Kandy rally organised by UPFA allies demanding former President\u2019s return to politics as the UPFA\u2019s prime ministerial candidate, Rajapaksa said that people who attended the rally were walking towards victory. &#8220;I wish them well for choosing that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa promised to fulfil people\u2019s wish. He said that the massive crowd attended the rally was his strength.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Former President Rajapaksa\u2019s message was read out at the rally by former Governor of the Central Province Tikiri Kobbekaduwa.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa said that SLFPers had attended the rally in defiance of restrictions and threats and their bravery strengthened his hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m watching the live webcast of the Kandy rally,&#8221; he said, adding that he was happy to see the success of the Kandy rally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to identify our lapses. We have to correct them in order not to repeat them. We have to apologise for the forgivable things. If we have to face punishment I will also accept that happily,&#8221; Rajapaksa said.<\/p>\n<p>Punishment meted out to him for doing the right thing by the country he would bear with pride, the former President said in his statement.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton39271\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D39271&amp;text=%26%238220%3BI%20am%20Happily%20Prepared%20to%20face%20any%20Punishment%20%20with%20Pride%20for%20Right%20Thing%20%20I%20did%20for%20the...%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 Dasun Edirisinghe and Cyril Wimalasurendra Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday that he would listen to the people\u2019s voice and do what they wanted him to do for the country. In his statement to the Kandy rally organised by UPFA allies demanding former President\u2019s return to politics as the UPFA\u2019s prime ministerial candidate, Rajapaksa &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=39271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;I am Happily Prepared to face any Punishment  with Pride for Right Thing  I did for the Country&#8221;-Mahinda 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\/39271"}],"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=39271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39309,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39271\/revisions\/39309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}