{"id":105403,"date":"2020-08-12T04:13:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T11:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105403"},"modified":"2020-08-12T04:13:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T11:13:49","slug":"no-portfolios-for-maithri-wijedasa-mahinda-yapa-opportunity-for-3-portfolios-and-speaker-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/12\/no-portfolios-for-maithri-wijedasa-mahinda-yapa-opportunity-for-3-portfolios-and-speaker-position\/","title":{"rendered":"No portfolios for Maithri, Wijedasa, Mahinda Yapa: opportunity for 3 portfolios and speaker position"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> MP-elects Maithripala Sirisena, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, Susil Premajayanth, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, S.B. Dissanayake, Mahinda Samarasinghe and John Seneviratne did not receive cabinet or state ministerial portfolios at today&rsquo;s (12) swearing-in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dissanayake received his appointment letter as the Nuwara Eliya district coordination committee chairman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.hirunews.lk\/Data\/News_Images\/202008\/1597216392_1138097_hirunews.jpg\" alt=\"No+portfolios+for+Maithri%2C+Wijedasa%2C+Mahinda+Yapa%3A+opportunity+for+3+portfolios+and+speaker+position\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no oath-taking in the portfolio of State Minister of Educational Reforms, Open Universities and Distant Education Promotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources say Dr. Wijedasa Rajapaksa was due to take oaths in that portfolio, but he was absent on the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ex-president Sirisena, who polled the highest preferential votes from Polonnaruwa (111,137) did not receive any portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unconfirmed reports say Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena will be appointed as the speaker of parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per constitutional provisions, appointments can be made to two more cabinet portfolios and one state ministerial portfolio. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News MP-elects Maithripala Sirisena, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, Susil Premajayanth, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, S.B. Dissanayake, Mahinda Samarasinghe and John Seneviratne did not receive cabinet or state ministerial portfolios at today&rsquo;s (12) swearing-in. Dissanayake received his appointment letter as the Nuwara Eliya district coordination committee chairman. There was no oath-taking in the portfolio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}