{"id":63505,"date":"2019-04-11T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=63505"},"modified":"2019-04-11T18:29:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T22:29:08","slug":"unp-plans-to-appoint-field-marshall-sarath-fonseka-as-internal-affairs-minister-with-powers-to-handle-citizenship-issues-of-ex-defence-secretary-gotabaya-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=63505","title":{"rendered":"UNP Plans to Appoint  Field Marshall Sarath Fonseka as Internal Affairs Minister With Powers to Handle &#8220;Citizenship Issues&#8221; of Ex &#8211; Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Saman Indrajith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UNP has sought to shift the responsibility for handling former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s citizenship to Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>It was decided at a meeting between senior UNP ministers and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, yesterday, to have Fonseka appointed Minister of Internal Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The Internal Affairs Minister is responsible for issues related to citizenship.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The UNPers decided to nominate Field Marshal Fonseka for that post and convey their decision to the President\u2019s office, yesterday itself.<\/p>\n<p>The post of Internal Affairs is currently held by Minister Vajira Abeywardena in addition to the Home Affairs portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s Office has informed Fonseka of the decision and instructed him to monitor the ministry\u2019s functions with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>The nomination would be delivered to the President\u2019s Office and President Maithripala Sirisena, who was scheduled to leave for Japan last evening. He will return on April 14.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton63505\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D63505&amp;text=UNP%20Plans%20to%20Appoint%20%20Field%20Marshall%20Sarath%20Fonseka%20as%20Internal%20Affairs%20Minister%20With%20Powers%20to%20Handle...%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 Saman Indrajith The UNP has sought to shift the responsibility for handling former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s citizenship to Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, according to sources. It was decided at a meeting between senior UNP ministers and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, yesterday, to have Fonseka appointed Minister of Internal Affairs. The Internal Affairs Minister &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=63505\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;UNP Plans to Appoint  Field Marshall Sarath Fonseka as Internal Affairs Minister With Powers to Handle &#8220;Citizenship Issues&#8221; of Ex &#8211; Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa.&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\/63505"}],"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=63505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63509,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63505\/revisions\/63509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}