{"id":52889,"date":"2017-05-11T22:04:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T02:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=52889"},"modified":"2017-05-11T22:04:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T02:04:42","slug":"narendra-modi-has-unscheduled-meeting-in-colombo-with-mahinda-rajapaksa-at-ex-sri-lankan-presidents-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=52889","title":{"rendered":"Narendra Modi Has Unscheduled Meeting in Colombo  With Mahinda Rajapaksa at Ex-Sri Lankan President&#8217;s Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In an  unscheduled, late night meeting, Indian  Prime Minister Narendra Modi met former Sri Lankan  President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo on Thursday May 11th 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The meeting was at the ex-president&#8217;s request,  Indian High Commisioner to Sri Lanka Taranjit Singh Sandhu told reporters here.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting comes ten days after a parliamentarian close to Mr. Rajapaksa called for a black flag protest around Mr. Modi&#8217;s visit. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rajapaksa has earlier blamed India for his defeat in the January 2015 presidential polls, but in a recent media interview said that he admired Mr.  Modi.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Indian High Commissioner Taranjit Singh Sandhu said that former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, at his request, met the Indian Prime Minister. Details of the discussion were not known.<\/p>\n<p>However, earlier, Rajapaksa told the media that the visit of the Indian Prime Minister would not have any \u201cnegative impact\u201d on Sri Lanka. There would be a problem only if he signed any agreement during this visit, he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, he had heard that an agreement had already been signed on economic projects, Rajapaksa added.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n(Compiled From Media Reports in  Newspapers and Web Sites)<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton52889\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D52889&amp;text=Narendra%20Modi%20Has%20Unscheduled%20Meeting%20in%20Colombo%20%20With%20Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%20at%20Ex-Sri%20Lankan%20President%26%238217%3Bs...%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>In an unscheduled, late night meeting, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo on Thursday May 11th 2017 The meeting was at the ex-president&#8217;s request, Indian High Commisioner to Sri Lanka Taranjit Singh Sandhu told reporters here. The meeting comes ten days after a parliamentarian close to Mr. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=52889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Narendra Modi Has Unscheduled Meeting in Colombo  With Mahinda Rajapaksa at Ex-Sri Lankan President&#8217;s Request&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\/52889"}],"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=52889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52894,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52889\/revisions\/52894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}