{"id":84431,"date":"2024-07-25T00:54:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T04:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=84431"},"modified":"2024-07-25T04:01:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T08:01:41","slug":"field-marshal-sarath-fonseka-will-contest-for-president-at-forthcoming-election-ex-army-chief-says-this-is-my-formal-and-official-announcement-as-the-presidential-candidate-of-sri-lanka-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=84431","title":{"rendered":"Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka Will Contest for President at Forthcoming Election; EX-Army chief says  \u201cThis is my formal and official announcement as the presidential candidate of Sri Lanka for the 2024 Presidential Election\u201d in Message Posted on \u201cX\u201d(twitter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka has announced his intention to contest at Sri Lanka\u2019s upcoming presidential election in a pre-dawn X (twitter) message.\u201cI wish to announce my Presidential Candidacy to the people of Sri Lanka&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 76 years, we have been led by an inept political group that has led us to bankruptcy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my formal and official announcement as the presidential candidate of Sri Lanka for the 2024 Presidential Election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI invite every Sri Lankan to join me to take Sri Lanka forward.\u201d<br \/>\nThe former Army chief said for Sri Lanka to grow, \u201cwe need to #CrushCorruption,\u201d and \u201cWe need to leverage our natural resources to boost income generation,\u201d echoing the oft-repeated slogans of some other political parties.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fonseka, Sri Lanka\u2019s first field marshal, unsuccessfully tried to challenge a re-election bid by the then-strongman president Mahinda Rajapakse in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>He was jailed for alleged treason by the previous regime as a result. <\/p>\n<p>Fonseka led troops to victory over the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009, but then fell out with Rajapakse over who deserved the credit.<\/p>\n<p>He has no party of his own, and was most recently a part of the Samagi Jana Balavegaya. <\/p>\n<p><em>COURTESY:ECONOMY NEXT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton84431\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D84431&amp;text=Field%20Marshal%20Sarath%20Fonseka%20Will%20Contest%20for%20President%20at%20Forthcoming%20Election%3B%20EX-Army%20chief%20says%20%20%E2%80%9CThis...%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>Ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka has announced his intention to contest at Sri Lanka\u2019s upcoming presidential election in a pre-dawn X (twitter) message.\u201cI wish to announce my Presidential Candidacy to the people of Sri Lanka&#8221; \u201cFor 76 years, we have been led by an inept political group that has led us to bankruptcy.\u201d \u201cThis is my &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=84431\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka Will Contest for President at Forthcoming Election; EX-Army chief says  \u201cThis is my formal and official announcement as the presidential candidate of Sri Lanka for the 2024 Presidential Election\u201d in Message Posted on \u201cX\u201d(twitter)&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\/84431"}],"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=84431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84432,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84431\/revisions\/84432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}