{"id":45052,"date":"2019-10-05T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T04:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45052"},"modified":"2019-10-05T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T04:04:14","slug":"sri-lankan-court-rejects-legal-challenge-over-presidential-candidates-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45052","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Court Rejects Legal Challenge Over Presidential Candidate&#8217;s Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Oct 5 (NNN-SL NEWS) &#8211; A Sri Lankan court, on Friday, dismissed a legal case, challenging presidential candidate, Gotabaya Rajapaksa&#8217;s Sri Lankan citizenship, thereby allowing him to contest the upcoming presidential polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A three-judge bench at the Court of Appeal, unanimously rejected the case that challenged the legality of Rajapaksa&#8217;s citizenship, which he obtained back in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gotabaya Rajapaksa is the brother of former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, and served as the secretary of defence in the previous government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was selected as the presidential candidate from the Sri Lanka Podujana Party, led by Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka will hold the presidential election on Nov 16.&#8211; NNN-SL NEWS  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Oct 5 (NNN-SL NEWS) &#8211; A Sri Lankan court, on Friday, dismissed a legal case, challenging presidential candidate, Gotabaya Rajapaksa&#8217;s Sri Lankan citizenship, thereby allowing him to contest the upcoming presidential polls. A three-judge bench at the Court of Appeal, unanimously rejected the case that challenged the legality of Rajapaksa&#8217;s citizenship, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":45056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45052"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}