{"id":148975,"date":"2015-08-14T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=148975"},"modified":"2015-08-14T14:39:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T09:09:38","slug":"im-pleased-with-your-comment-we-would-obtain-a-majority-mahinda-tells-sirisena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/im-pleased-with-your-comment-we-would-obtain-a-majority-mahinda-tells-sirisena\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Pleased With Your Comment, We Would Obtain A Majority: Mahinda Tells Sirisena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/maithri-reconfirms-his-stance-mahinda-rajapakasa-wont-be-pm\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">yesterday&#8217;s letter<\/span><\/a> to Kurunegala district candidate Mahinda Rajapaksa, the former President said today that\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">he\u00a0completely rejected the baseless criticism contained in the letter which he claims were made from information received from a third party.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Rajapaksa said he is pleased with President\u2019s comment that they would obtain a majority at the upcoming elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Sending a short letter to Sirisena, Rajapaksa said he hopes President Maithripala Sirisena would respect the verdict of the people at the parliamentary elections in the same manner he respected the verdict on January 09 and left the Temple Trees by early morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Mahindas-letter-to-Maithripala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-148976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Mahindas-letter-to-Maithripala.jpg\" alt=\"Mahinda's letter to Maithripala\" width=\"641\" height=\"1039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Mahindas-letter-to-Maithripala.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Mahindas-letter-to-Maithripala-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Mahindas-letter-to-Maithripala-632x1024.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":148980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6980,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-sri-lanka-parliamentary-elections-2015","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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