{"id":50725,"date":"2018-10-17T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T08:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=50725"},"modified":"2018-10-17T14:23:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T08:53:59","slug":"sri-lanka-denies-report-on-raw-plot-to-assassinate-president-sirisena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/world-news\/sri-lanka-denies-report-on-raw-plot-to-assassinate-president-sirisena\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka denies report on RAW plot to assassinate President Sirisena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The office of Sri Lankan President has, on Wednesday, denied the reports in certain media outlets that Sirisena claimed that Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was \u201ctrying to kill him\u201d by Prime Minister Narendra Modi \u201cmay not be aware of the plan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/maithripala-sirisena\">Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena<\/a> on Tuesday reportedly mentioned during a cabinet meeting in Colombo that RAW was plotting his assassination. Source present in the said meeting broke the news to some Indian journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations against the alleged Indian plot came days ahead of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickermensinghe\u2019s scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Observers believe this could be aimed to damage ties between the two neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/world-news\/buddhist-muslim-clashes-continue-sri-lanka-39420\"> Buddhist-Muslim clashes continue in Sri Lanka<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier report said that during the cabinet meeting, President Sirisena accused the government of showing \u201cindifference\u201d to an alleged assassination plan against him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3apnlivemumbai.s3-website.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/apnlive\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pic-1-srilanka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50728\" src=\"http:\/\/s3apnlivemumbai.s3-website.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/apnlive\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pic-1-srilanka.jpg\" alt=\"Sri Lanka denies report on RAW plot to assassinate President Sirisena\" width=\"884\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Namal Kumara of an anti-corruption outfit had recently claimed of an assassination plan against Sirisena and Gotabaya Rajpaksa, the former defense secretary which led to arrest of M. Thomas, an Indian national from Kerala.<\/p>\n<p>During the cabinet meeting President Sirisena reiterated his suspicion that Thomas must \u201cbe a RAW agent\u201d sent to kill him. He reportedly said, \u201cThe Indian PM may not be aware. That is often the case. Trump may not be aware of CIA\u2019s similar moves\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/world-news\/sri-lanka-cabinet-reshuffle-arjuna-ranatunga-gets-petroleum-ministry-17190\"> Sri Lanka cabinet reshuffle: Arjuna Ranatunga gets petroleum ministry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that a Sri Lankan leader has alleged Indian\u2019s involvement their internal affairs. Former President Mahindra Rajapaksa had alleged was RAW for his defeat in 2015 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The office of Sri Lankan President has, on Wednesday, denied the reports in certain media outlets that Sirisena claimed that Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was \u201ctrying to kill him\u201d by Prime Minister Narendra Modi \u201cmay not be aware of the plan\u201d. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Tuesday reportedly mentioned during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":50727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1511],"tags":[42,4700,1399,3500],"yst_prominent_words":[57695,33839,57690,57688,57692,57693,57691,6625,6619,3710,3817,57694,4396,6620,6618,57696,25878,15411,20209,57689],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2018\/10\/17141503\/feature-sirisena.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50725"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=50725"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=50725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->