{"id":57848,"date":"2018-02-18T23:05:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T04:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57848"},"modified":"2018-02-18T23:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T04:05:28","slug":"new-govt-under-prime-minister-ranil-wickremesinghe-with-re-shuffled-cabinet-ministers-from-unp-and-one-faction-of-slfp-likely-to-be-formed-on-feb-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57848","title":{"rendered":"New Govt Under Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe With  Re-shuffled Cabinet Ministers From UNP and  one Faction of SLFP Likely To Be Formed on Feb 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Kelum Bandara<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Cabinet reshuffle is set to take place on Wednesday (21) as a fore-runner to a new government headed by the United National Party (UNP), it is learnt.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken after a meeting that took place on Sunday (18) between President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Speaker Karu Jayasuriya.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new government will have Mr. Wickremesinghe as its leader. Many ministers representing the United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) would join hands with the UNP to run this government, while several MPs from the UPFA are due to sit in the opposition as a mark of protest.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Wickremesinghe had briefed the Cabinet ministers representing the UNP about later in the evening.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton57848\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D57848&amp;text=New%20Govt%20Under%20Prime%20Minister%20Ranil%20Wickremesinghe%20With%20%20Re-shuffled%20Cabinet%20Ministers%20From%20UNP%20and%20%20one...%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 Kelum Bandara A Cabinet reshuffle is set to take place on Wednesday (21) as a fore-runner to a new government headed by the United National Party (UNP), it is learnt. The decision was taken after a meeting that took place on Sunday (18) between President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Speaker Karu &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=57848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;New Govt Under Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe With  Re-shuffled Cabinet Ministers From UNP and  one Faction of SLFP Likely To Be Formed on Feb 21st&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\/57848"}],"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=57848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57849,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57848\/revisions\/57849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}