{"id":15248,"date":"2021-08-25T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T09:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=15248"},"modified":"2021-08-25T14:50:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T09:20:10","slug":"iraj-chased-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=15248","title":{"rendered":"Iraj chased out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iraj Weeraratne, who had been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Youth Services Council, has handed over the letter of resignation following an order issued to him by the government to resign immediately.<br \/>The letter was sent to Youth and Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa today (25). He is a strongman in the social media campaign affiliated with the Sri Lanka People&#8217;s Front. He has been accused of creating several fictitious posts on social media that even heightened the unpopularity of the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/let2.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"729\" height=\"1011\" src=\"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/let2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/let2.png 729w, https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/let2-216x300.png 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-15248' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=15248&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-15248' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-15248' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-15248' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-15248'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-15248' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-15248 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraj Weeraratne, who had been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Youth Services Council, has handed over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-smartphones","category-political","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}