{"id":62252,"date":"2018-12-18T00:09:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T05:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=62252"},"modified":"2018-12-18T01:55:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T06:55:11","slug":"formation-of-new-cabinet-delayed-as-president-sirisena-wants-the-police-dept-and-two-state-media-institutions-to-be-under-his-direct-purview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=62252","title":{"rendered":"Formation of New Cabinet Delayed as President Sirisena  Wants The Police Dept and Two State Media Institutions to be Under His Direct Purview."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Triggering a fresh controversy, President Maithripala Sirisena has demanded state media institutions, making the negotiations over the appointments of a new Cabinet even harder.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sirisena has reportedly informed the UNP that he would place two state media institutions under his direct purview. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The UNP has vehemently opposed to the plan, stating that all state media institutions should come under the Ministry of Media. <\/p>\n<p>It is learnt that Sirisena also wants to retain the Police Department which he recently gazetted under the Ministry of Defence. <\/p>\n<p>The UNP, however, has opposed this plan and demanded the Police Department be brought under the Ministry of Law and Order. The UNP has stressed that a senior Parliamentarian of the party should be put in charge of the Ministry of Law and Order.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Asian Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton62252\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D62252&amp;text=Formation%20of%20New%20Cabinet%20Delayed%20as%20President%20Sirisena%20%20Wants%20The%20Police%20Dept%20and%20Two%20State%20Media%20Institutions...%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>Triggering a fresh controversy, President Maithripala Sirisena has demanded state media institutions, making the negotiations over the appointments of a new Cabinet even harder. Sirisena has reportedly informed the UNP that he would place two state media institutions under his direct purview.<\/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\/62252"}],"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=62252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62253,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62252\/revisions\/62253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}