{"id":57320,"date":"2018-01-20T19:15:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T00:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57320"},"modified":"2018-01-20T19:15:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T00:15:56","slug":"president-sirisena-to-take-over-responsibility-of-managing-the-economy-from-the-unp-and-wants-domestic-investors-to-rally-round-him-and-strengthen-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57320","title":{"rendered":"President Sirisena To Take Over Responsibility of Managing the Economy From the UNP and Wants Domestic Investors to rally Round Him and Strengthen the Economy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Sri Lanka&#8217;s President Maithripala Siriisena said he is taking over the economy from this year, though for three years the United National Party of Prime Minister Rani; Wickremesinghe was allowed to manage in the latest escalation of tensions between the two.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three months ago he had had appointed a National Economic Council for the purpose, President Sirisena told an election rally in Kegalle.<\/p>\n<p>President Sirisena said he is taking over the responsibility of strengthening the economy and called upon domestic investors rally around to build the economy of the &#8216;motherland&#8217;, his office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>President Sirisena&#8217;s Sri Lanka Freedom Party and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremsinghe&#8217;s UNP is contesting upcoming local elections separately.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions have been rising with backbenchers accusing each other and President Sirisena walking out a cabinet meeting last week.<\/p>\n<p>Sirisena said Sri Lanka can become a developed nation but only corrupt politicians stood in the way.<\/p>\n<p>Last week President Sirisena made public a commission of inquiry on the country&#8217;s biggest security scam so far, involving ex-Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran, who was appointed by Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:ECONOMY NEXT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton57320\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D57320&amp;text=President%20Sirisena%20To%20Take%20Over%20Responsibility%20of%20Managing%20the%20Economy%20From%20the%20UNP%20and%20Wants%20Domestic...%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>Sri Lanka&#8217;s President Maithripala Siriisena said he is taking over the economy from this year, though for three years the United National Party of Prime Minister Rani; Wickremesinghe was allowed to manage in the latest escalation of tensions between the two. Three months ago he had had appointed a National Economic Council for the purpose, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57320\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;President Sirisena To Take Over Responsibility of Managing the Economy From the UNP and Wants Domestic Investors to rally Round Him and Strengthen the Economy.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/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\/57320"}],"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=57320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57321,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57320\/revisions\/57321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}