{"id":107951,"date":"2013-09-28T20:20:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T14:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=107951"},"modified":"2013-10-04T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T07:37:39","slug":"i-have-sinhala-extremists-and-religious-extremists-in-my-cabinet-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/i-have-sinhala-extremists-and-religious-extremists-in-my-cabinet-president\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Have Sinhala Extremists And Religious Extremists In My Cabinet&#8221;: President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a widely publicised interview with the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/video-talk-to-al-jazeera-mahinda-rajapaksa-this-is-all-propaganda\/\"> Al-Jazeera network yesterday <\/a>admitted to having religious extremists and right wing extremists in his cabinet of ministers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/i-have-sinhala-extremists-and-religious-extremists-in-my-cabinet-president\/gota-and-mahinda\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-107952\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-107952\" title=\"gota-and-mahinda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gota-and-mahinda-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gota-and-mahinda-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gota-and-mahinda.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right wing extremists are there, religious extremists are there &#8211; the Tamils, the Sinhala, the Muslims &#8211; we have all these people in the cabinet. 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