{"id":66902,"date":"2019-12-27T01:03:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T06:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66902"},"modified":"2019-12-27T01:03:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T06:03:31","slug":"national-anthem-will-be-sung-only-in-the-sinhala-language-and-not-in-the-tamil-language-also-at-the-72nd-independence-day-celebrations-scheduled-for-feb-4-2020-at-independence-square-in-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66902","title":{"rendered":"National Anthem Will be Sung Only in  the Sinhala  Language and Not in the  Tamil Language  Also at the 72nd  Independence Day Celebrations Scheduled for Feb 4 2020 at Independence Square in Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sandun A. Jayasekera <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 72nd Independence Day celebrations will be held on February 4 at Independence  Square in Colombo on a grand scale, the Public Administration Ministry said, adding that the national anthem would be sung only in Sinhala. <\/p>\n<p>These decisions were taken at a meeting held yesterday at the Disaster Management, Local Government and Provincial Councils Ministry. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Minister Janaka Bandara Thennakoon who chaired the meeting said President Gotabaya Rajapaksa intended holding this year\u2019s celebrations under full police and military honours and with the participation of all State Ministries and the Colombo Municipal Council. <\/p>\n<p>He had instructed relevant officials to ensure the general public was not inconvenienced when police, armed forces and other participants rehearsed for the celebration parade.<\/p>\n<p>President Rajapaksa wishes to launch a tree-planting campaign covering the entire country.<\/p>\n<p> Sri Lanka sung the national anthem for the first time in Tamil at the 68th Independence Day celebrations at Galle Face in 2016. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton66902\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D66902&amp;text=National%20Anthem%20Will%20be%20Sung%20Only%20in%20%20the%20Sinhala%20%20Language%20and%20Not%20in%20the%20%20Tamil%20Language%20%20Also%20at%20the%2072nd%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 Sandun A. Jayasekera The 72nd Independence Day celebrations will be held on February 4 at Independence Square in Colombo on a grand scale, the Public Administration Ministry said, adding that the national anthem would be sung only in Sinhala. These decisions were taken at a meeting held yesterday at the Disaster Management, Local Government &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66902\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;National Anthem Will be Sung Only in  the Sinhala  Language and Not in the  Tamil Language  Also at the 72nd  Independence Day Celebrations Scheduled for Feb 4 2020 at Independence Square in Colombo&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\/66902"}],"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=66902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66903,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66902\/revisions\/66903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}