{"id":73211,"date":"2021-06-13T02:49:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T07:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=73211"},"modified":"2021-06-13T02:49:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T07:49:49","slug":"sri-lanka-podujana-peramuna-general-secretary-sagara-kariyawasam-issues-statement-calling-for-the-resignation-of-energy-minister-udaya-gammanpila-over-his-failure-to-prevent-fuel-price-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=73211","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam  Issues Statement Calling For  the resignation of Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila over his failure to prevent   fuel price increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has called for the resignation of Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila over his failure to prevent  yesterday\u2019s fuel price increase.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued last night, SLPP General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam said the subject minister must take complete responsibility for pushing the people into more difficulties with a fuel price hike amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and failing to take necessary decisions to prevent such increase.<\/p>\n<p>He said that as the subject minister he was directly responsible for this situation and should take responsibility and resign from his post.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gammanpila was not available for comment last night.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Sunday Times<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton73211\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D73211&amp;text=Sri%20Lanka%20Podujana%20Peramuna%20General%20Secretary%20Sagara%20Kariyawasam%20%20Issues%20Statement%20Calling%20For%20%20the...%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>The ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has called for the resignation of Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila over his failure to prevent yesterday\u2019s fuel price increase.<\/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\/73211"}],"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=73211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73212,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73211\/revisions\/73212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}