{"id":73588,"date":"2021-07-12T20:40:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T01:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=73588"},"modified":"2021-07-12T20:41:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T01:41:14","slug":"basil-rajapaksa-refutes-social-media-reports-that-he-would-allow-import-of-chemical-fertilizer-again-this-is-an-attempt-to-derail-the-governments-organic-fertiliser-campaign-alleg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=73588","title":{"rendered":"Basil Rajapaksa Refutes Social Media Reports that he would Allow Import of Chemical Fertilizer again: :this is an attempt to derail the government\u2019s organic fertiliser campaign,\u201d Alleges the Finance Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Shyam Nuawan Ganewatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa yesterday said that there were false reports circulating in social media that he would allow chemical fertiliser imports in an attempt to scuttle the government\u2019s organic fertilizer campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Rajapaksa said that there was no truth in the claims being made on social media that the government was ready to import chemical fertilisers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis campaign is an attempt to derail the government\u2019s organic fertiliser campaign,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Minister Rajapaksa said that the mudslinging campaign to impede the government\u2019s efforts to end the use of chemical fertilisers, which caused many diseases, would not succeed, as the people were intelligent and backed the government.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Rajapaksa said that at a time steps were being taken to create a prosperous country in keeping with the Vision of Prosperity policy programme, he would not allow anyone to sabotage the government\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Finance said that such mudslinging only strengthened his resolve to serve the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton73588\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D73588&amp;text=Basil%20Rajapaksa%20Refutes%20Social%20Media%20Reports%20that%20he%20would%20Allow%20Import%20of%20Chemical%20Fertilizer%20again%3A%20%3Athis%20is...%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 Shyam Nuawan Ganewatte Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa yesterday said that there were false reports circulating in social media that he would allow chemical fertiliser imports in an attempt to scuttle the government\u2019s organic fertilizer campaign. Minister Rajapaksa said that there was no truth in the claims being made on social media that the government &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=73588\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Basil Rajapaksa Refutes Social Media Reports that he would Allow Import of Chemical Fertilizer again: :this is an attempt to derail the government\u2019s organic fertiliser campaign,\u201d Alleges the Finance Minister&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\/73588"}],"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=73588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73589,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73588\/revisions\/73589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}