{"id":316845,"date":"2019-11-17T14:47:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T14:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316845"},"modified":"2019-11-17T14:47:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T14:47:19","slug":"pm-modi-congratulates-president-elect-of-sri-lanka-gotabaya-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-congratulates-president-elect-of-sri-lanka-gotabaya-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi congratulates President-elect of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316847 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191117-152541__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191117-152541__01.jpg 427w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191117-152541__01-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated President-elect of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa over telephone on his electoral victory in the Presidential elections held in Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Conveying the good wishes on behalf of the people of India and on his own behalf, the Prime Minister expressed confidence that under the able leadership of Rajapaksa the people of Sri Lanka will progress further on the path of peace and prosperity and fraternal, cultural, historical\u00a0 and civilisational ties between India and Sri Lanka will be further strengthened. PM Modi reiterated India\u2019s commitment to continue to work with the Government of Sri Lanka to these ends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Rajapaksa thanked Modi for his good wishes. He also expressed his readiness to work with India very closely to ensure development and security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">PM Modi also extended an invitation to Rajapaksa to visit India at his early convenience.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated President-elect of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa over telephone on his electoral victory in the Presidential elections held in Sri Lanka. Conveying the good wishes on behalf of the people of India and on his own behalf, the Prime Minister expressed confidence that under the able leadership of Rajapaksa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316848,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316845\/revisions\/316848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}