{"id":61946,"date":"2018-11-29T00:41:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T04:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61946"},"modified":"2018-11-29T00:41:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T04:41:03","slug":"president-sirisena-removes-all-purported-state-and-deputy-ministers-leaving-behind-only-purported-cabinet-ministers-in-his-purported-interim-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61946","title":{"rendered":"President Sirisena Removes All Purported State and Deputy Ministers Leaving Behind only Purported Cabinet Ministers  In His Purported Interim Govt ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nSri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has removed the state and deputy minister posts under a &#8216;caretaker&#8217; government, a spokesperson of the disputed cabinet said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a caretaker government. Therefore, the President has said there will be no state and deputy ministers,&#8221; parliamentarian Mahinda Samarasinghe said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He was responding to a question on why Keheliya Rambukwella, who was appointed as a disputed state minister and co-cabinet spokesperson was not present at the cabinet media briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now there are only cabinet ministers,&#8221; Samarasinghe said.<\/p>\n<p>A caretaker government was formed after the President gazetted a dissolution of parliament. <\/p>\n<p>However, the move is now contested in the supreme court.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:ECONOMY NEXT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton61946\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D61946&amp;text=President%20Sirisena%20Removes%20All%20Purported%20State%20and%20Deputy%20Ministers%20Leaving%20Behind%20only%20Purported%20Cabinet...%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 Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has removed the state and deputy minister posts under a &#8216;caretaker&#8217; government, a spokesperson of the disputed cabinet said. &#8220;This is a caretaker government. Therefore, the President has said there will be no state and deputy ministers,&#8221; parliamentarian Mahinda Samarasinghe said.<\/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\/61946"}],"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=61946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61947,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61946\/revisions\/61947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}