{"id":59080,"date":"2018-05-03T01:08:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T06:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=59080"},"modified":"2018-05-03T02:26:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T07:26:14","slug":"it-seems-that-one-needs-to-engage-in-corrupt-activities-to-obtain-a-powerful-ministerial-position-says-social-empowerment-deputy-minister-ranjan-ramanayake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=59080","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It Seems That One Needs to Engage in Corrupt Activities to Obtain a Powerful Ministerial Position&#8221; Says Social Empowerment Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Rathindra Kuruwita<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seemed that one needed to engage in corrupt activities to obtain a powerful ministerial position, Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment, Ranjan Ramanayake said yesterday commenting on the latest reshuffle of state and deputy ministers, in which some of his subjects were removed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Previously he held the portfolio of Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage. &#8220;I got the highest number of votes from the Gampaha District from the UNP and I did not get a Cabinet portfolio. The UNPer who got the highest votes from Matara, Buddhika Pathirana, has received nothing, that way I am lucky to have got something,&#8221; he said.him nor Pathirana had engaged in any corrupt activities and maybe that\u2019s what had prevented them from receiving the positions they deserve in the government. &#8220;The more corrupt you are the more you get. Maybe engaging in corrupt activities is a good qualification and I don\u2019t have it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton59080\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D59080&amp;text=%26%238220%3BIt%20Seems%20That%20One%20Needs%20to%20Engage%20in%20Corrupt%20Activities%20to%20Obtain%20a%20Powerful%20Ministerial...%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 Rathindra Kuruwita It seemed that one needed to engage in corrupt activities to obtain a powerful ministerial position, Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment, Ranjan Ramanayake said yesterday commenting on the latest reshuffle of state and deputy ministers, in which some of his subjects were removed.<\/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\/59080"}],"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=59080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59081,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59080\/revisions\/59081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}