{"id":2472,"date":"2016-10-26T08:07:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T08:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2016-11-09T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T11:47:56","slug":"jvp-agitates-opposite-parliament-against-vat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/jvp-agitates-opposite-parliament-against-vat\/","title":{"rendered":"JVP agitates at Parliament Roundabout against VAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The JVP held an agitation at Parliament Roundabout against government\u2019s decision to impose Value Added Tax (VAT) that burdens masses. The Leaders of the JVP and a large crowd participated.<\/p>\n<p>The General Secretary Comrade Tilvin Silva, the National Organizer Comrade Bimal Rathnayaka and Member of the Political Bureau Comrade Lal Kantha addressed the people.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag1-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"ag1\" width=\"840\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag1-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag1-600x301.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag2-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"ag2\" width=\"832\" height=\"455\" 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\/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag6-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"ag6\" width=\"830\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag6-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag6-600x367.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag6.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag7-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"ag7\" width=\"834\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag7-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag7-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag7.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag8-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"ag8\" width=\"848\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag8-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag8-600x322.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag8.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag9-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"ag9\" width=\"837\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ag9-300x162.jpg 300w, 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The Leaders of the JVP and a large crowd participated. The General Secretary Comrade Tilvin Silva, the National Organizer Comrade Bimal Rathnayaka and Member of the Political Bureau Comrade Lal Kantha addressed the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry","9":"gs-1","10":"gs-odd","11":"gs-even","12":"gs-featured-content-entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}