{"id":67446,"date":"2020-02-03T13:50:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=67446"},"modified":"2020-02-03T15:43:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:43:53","slug":"tpa-leader-mano-ganesan-mp-makes-final-hour-call-to-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-to-allow-the-national-anthem-to-be-sung-in-both-sinhala-and-tamil-at-tuesdays-celebrations-to-be-held-at-indep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=67446","title":{"rendered":"TPA Leader Mano Ganesan MP Makes final hour call to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to allow the National Anthem to be sung in both Sinhala and Tamil at Tuesday\u2019s celebrations to be held at Independence Square."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A day before the country celebrates her 72nd anniversary of independence, former Minister for National Integration and Official Languages MP Mano Ganeshan made a final hour call to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to allow the National Anthem to be sung in both Sinhala and Tamil at Tuesday\u2019s celebrations, to be held at Independence Square, Colombo.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a Twitter post, Ganeshan said the National Anthem in Tamil language is not just another song, but the \u201cSri Lankan identity\u201d of the Tamil-speaking community, which is the need of the hour. \u201cWish your administration doesn\u2019t dismantle last four years\u2019 practice of Sri Lankan National Anthem in Tamil language being sung at the National Day celebrations,\u201d he said in a Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton67446\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D67446&amp;text=TPA%20Leader%20Mano%20Ganesan%20MP%20Makes%20final%20hour%20call%20to%20President%20Gotabaya%20Rajapaksa%20to%20allow%20the%20National%20Anthem...%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>A day before the country celebrates her 72nd anniversary of independence, former Minister for National Integration and Official Languages MP Mano Ganeshan made a final hour call to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to allow the National Anthem to be sung in both Sinhala and Tamil at Tuesday\u2019s celebrations, to be held at Independence Square, Colombo.<\/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\/67446"}],"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=67446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67447,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67446\/revisions\/67447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}