{"id":76671,"date":"2022-03-24T00:27:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T04:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=76671"},"modified":"2022-03-24T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T19:27:06","slug":"ex-president-maithripala-sirisena-and-former-pm-ranil-wickremesinghe-urge-govt-to-submit-new-welfare-budget-to-provide-relief-for-the-people-finance-minister-basil-rajapaksa-says-he-can-present-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=76671","title":{"rendered":"Ex- President  Maithripala Sirisena and Former PM Ranil Wickremesinghe  Urge Govt to Submit New Welfare Budget to Provide Relief for the People; Finance Minister Basil  Rajapaksa says he can present new Budget if Cabinet approves move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa said yesterday he can present a new Budget to Parliament if the Cabinet of Ministers agrees to the move.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said such a Budget would be to provide relief to the public who are burdened with the high cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>His comments were made at the All Party Conference (APC) held yesterday where former President Maithripala Sirisena who represented  the SLFP and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said a new Budget was needed to provide relief to the people.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sirisena urged the Government to cut down on unnecessary expenditure from the current Budgetary allocations  and allocate that money for public welfare.<\/p>\n<p>The UNP leader said the Government must move from a development budget to a welfare budget to assist people who are burdened due to rising costs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton76671\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D76671&amp;text=Ex-%20President%20%20Maithripala%20Sirisena%20and%20Former%20PM%20Ranil%20Wickremesinghe%20%20Urge%20Govt%20to%20Submit%20New%20Welfare%20Budget...%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>Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa said yesterday he can present a new Budget to Parliament if the Cabinet of Ministers agrees to the move. He said such a Budget would be to provide relief to the public who are burdened with the high cost of living. His comments were made at the All Party Conference (APC) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=76671\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Ex- President  Maithripala Sirisena and Former PM Ranil Wickremesinghe  Urge Govt to Submit New Welfare Budget to Provide Relief for the People; Finance Minister Basil  Rajapaksa says he can present new Budget if Cabinet approves move&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\/76671"}],"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=76671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76672,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76671\/revisions\/76672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}