{"id":38662,"date":"2015-02-16T19:30:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T00:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=38662"},"modified":"2015-02-16T19:30:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T00:30:30","slug":"tna-eastern-councillors-to-decide-whether-to-accept-portfolios-in-provincial-administration-party-leader-sampanthan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=38662","title":{"rendered":"TNA Eastern Councillors to Decide Whether to Accept Portfolios in Provincial Administration-Party Leader  Sampanthan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by<\/p>\n<p>Chaminda Perera<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Leader and Member of Parliament R. Sambandan yesterday refuted media reports that the party has appointed a committee to take a decision on whether it should accept Ministerial portfolios in the Eastern Provincial Council.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>MP Sambandan while stressing that the party has not appointed such a committee said the TNA members of the Eastern Provincial Council have been allowed to take a decision on whether they should accept the Ministerial portfolios or not. <\/p>\n<p>The TNA enjoys 11 seats in the council while the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress and United National Party has 7 and 4 seats respectively. The UPFA held power in the Eastern Provincial Council before defections by some of its members during the presidential election period.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:Daily News<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton38662\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D38662&amp;text=TNA%20Eastern%20Councillors%20to%20Decide%20Whether%20to%20Accept%20Portfolios%20in%20Provincial%20Administration-Party%20Leader%20...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Chaminda Perera Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Leader and Member of Parliament R. Sambandan yesterday refuted media reports that the party has appointed a committee to take a decision on whether it should accept Ministerial portfolios in the Eastern Provincial Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38664,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38662\/revisions\/38664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}