{"id":141100,"date":"2015-03-14T23:19:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T17:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=141100"},"modified":"2015-03-15T00:25:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T18:55:53","slug":"mr-meets-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mr-meets-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"MR Meets Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=10&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> has met Indian Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Narendra+Modi&amp;x=12&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Narendra Modi<\/span><\/a> who is currently in the island, this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said MR met PM Modi for half an hour this evening at the India House &#8211; the residence of the Indian High Commissioner. The details of the discussion however have not been divulged yet.<\/p>\n<p>MR on Friday, confirmed to media that he was expected to meet PM Modi on today. Following his meet up with MR, the Indian PM attended a reception hosted by the Indian High Commissioner at the same premises and left the island a short while ago, concluding his historic two-day visit to the island nation.<\/p>\n<p>Sources state it is likely that MR scheduled his meet up with the Indian Prime Minister prior to the reception since he did not wish to mingle with the guests at the reception that included former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Chandrika+Kumaratunga&amp;x=10&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chandrika Kumaratunga<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mahinda-Modi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-141101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mahinda-Modi.jpg\" alt=\"Mahinda Modi\" width=\"637\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mahinda-Modi.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mahinda-Modi-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mahinda-Modi-800x576.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":141101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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