{"id":41936,"date":"2015-07-01T15:06:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T19:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=41936"},"modified":"2015-07-01T15:06:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T19:06:39","slug":"we-will-contest-at-the-upcoming-general-election-for-the-sake-of-the-party-and-country-announces-mahinda-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=41936","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe will Contest at the Upcoming General Election for the Sake of the Party and Country\u201d Announces  Mahinda Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/p>\n<p>By<\/p>\n<p>Lakna Paranamanna<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing a gathering at Medamulana this morning revealed that he would contest the upcoming general election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not ignore the requests that have been made to me by the people \u2013 I accept it wholeheartedly. . . Therefore we will move forward at the upcoming general election with this force of people \u2013 we have made preparations to move forward . . . We will contest at the upcoming general elections for the sake of the party and the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rajapaksa said he would rectify their previous mistakes and approach the people in a more sensitive manner in the journey ahead.<\/p>\n<p>However, he did not name the party through which he would contest. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton41936\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D41936&amp;text=%E2%80%9CWe%20will%20Contest%20at%20the%20Upcoming%20General%20Election%20for%20the%20Sake%20of%20the%20Party%20and%20Country%E2%80%9D%20Announces%20...%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 President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing a gathering at Medamulana this morning revealed that he would contest the upcoming general election. \u201cI will not ignore the requests that have been made to me by the people \u2013 I accept it wholeheartedly. . . Therefore we will move forward at the upcoming general election &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=41936\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;\u201cWe will Contest at the Upcoming General Election for the Sake of the Party and Country\u201d Announces  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\/41936"}],"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=41936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41937,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41936\/revisions\/41937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}