{"id":49368,"date":"2016-11-02T17:34:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T21:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49368"},"modified":"2016-11-02T17:34:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T21:34:43","slug":"gotabhaya-rajapaksa-denies-allegation-by-minister-senaratne-that-aavaagroup-was-established-with-ex-def-secys-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49368","title":{"rendered":"Gotabhaya Rajapaksa Denies Allegation by Minister Senaratne that &#8220;Aavaa&#8221;Group was Established with Ex-Def Secy&#8217;s Approval."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Lahiru Pothmulla<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa today vehemently denied the allegations made by Cabinet Spokesman Minister Rajitha Senaratne that the \u2018Aava\u2019 gang was established under the approval of Mr. Rajapaksa during the previous government.<\/p>\n<p>He said Minister Senaratne should focus on executing duties of his ministry instead of making \u2018malicious\u2019 allegations.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (the minister) has been given a ministerial portfolio and he should stick to its duties. He shouldn\u2019t come up with stories which are utter nonsense,\u201d Mr. Rajapaksa told the Daily Mirror.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the minister\u2019s claim that Mr. Rajapaksa and those who are behind the \u2018Aava\u2019 gang are spreading violence to destabilise the situation in the North even today, the former defence secretary said, \u201cIf he thinks I\u2019m capable of such things, I will take it as a compliment.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton49368\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D49368&amp;text=Gotabhaya%20Rajapaksa%20Denies%20Allegation%20by%20Minister%20Senaratne%20that%20%26%238220%3BAavaa%26%238221%3BGroup%20was%20Established%20with...%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 Lahiru Pothmulla Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa today vehemently denied the allegations made by Cabinet Spokesman Minister Rajitha Senaratne that the \u2018Aava\u2019 gang was established under the approval of Mr. Rajapaksa during the previous government. He said Minister Senaratne should focus on executing duties of his ministry instead of making \u2018malicious\u2019 allegations.<\/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\/49368"}],"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=49368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49369,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49368\/revisions\/49369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}