{"id":52227,"date":"2017-03-29T21:15:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T01:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=52227"},"modified":"2017-03-29T21:21:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T01:21:34","slug":"gotabhaya-rajapaksa-though-undecided-yet-on-entering-active-politics-is-studying-donald-trump-as-possible-role-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=52227","title":{"rendered":"Gotabhaya Rajapaksa  Though Undecided Yet on Entering  Active Politics is Studying Donald Trump as Possible Role Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Denying the corruption and war crimes allegations against him, Sri Lanka\u2019s former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday hinted at a possible entry into active politics in the future, The Hindu newspaper reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not decided yet,\u201d he told foreign correspondents in Sri Lanka, without ruling out the option. A few of his supporters have been floating the idea of his presidential candidacy in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I can do something for the country, I will do that. I have that capability and I have proved it \u2014 whether during the war or in urban development. I did what nobody had done,\u201d said the brother of ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who led the armed forces against the LTTE.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He was willing to work with a leader whose policies were agreeable, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Observing that he had never been a politician, unlike his family members who had been in politics since 1935, he said: \u201cBut Donald Trump has come from [business]. We have to see.\u201d Asked if he considered the US President a model, he said: \u201cYes, I am looking at him and studying him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton52227\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D52227&amp;text=Gotabhaya%20Rajapaksa%20%20Though%20Undecided%20Yet%20on%20Entering%20%20Active%20Politics%20is%20Studying%20Donald%20Trump%20as%20Possible...%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>Denying the corruption and war crimes allegations against him, Sri Lanka\u2019s former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday hinted at a possible entry into active politics in the future, The Hindu newspaper reported. \u201cI have not decided yet,\u201d he told foreign correspondents in Sri Lanka, without ruling out the option. A few of his supporters &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=52227\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Gotabhaya Rajapaksa  Though Undecided Yet on Entering  Active Politics is Studying Donald Trump as Possible Role Model&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\/52227"}],"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=52227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52228,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52227\/revisions\/52228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}