{"id":117212,"date":"2021-08-17T14:47:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T21:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117212"},"modified":"2021-08-17T14:47:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T21:47:37","slug":"does-minister-pavithras-farewell-speech-have-a-hidden-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/17\/does-minister-pavithras-farewell-speech-have-a-hidden-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Minister Pavithra’s farewell speech have a hidden message?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi who was appointed as the Minister of Transport in a cabinet reshuffle that took place earlier today (16) bid farewell to her former staff at the Health Ministry this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A special meeting was held at the Ministry of Health to bid farewell to Wanniarachchi and welcome newly appointed Minister Keheliya Rambukwella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minister Wanniarachchi admitted that she too was shocked when she was offered a new portfolio, like many others in the Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When I was called, I told a group of doctors who was at a meeting with me that it might be a ministerial change. Doctors said that my portfolio will not be changed. But I was unaware of all these new developments until the last minute,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She related a renowned folktale during her farewell speech that left many wonder whether she was trying to convey a hidden message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Once, when a King and his chief advisor (Purohitha) were on a journey together and the King\u2019s finger was accidentally cut off by his own sword. Why did this happen? he asked Purohitha, to which latter replied \u2018must have happened for good\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The King, angry at his response, pushed Purohitha into a pit and continued his journey, but in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsequently, the King was surrounded by a group of celebrants, looking for an individual to sacrifice to complete their ritual. Upon inspection, however, they deemed the King unsatisfactory for the sacrifice, claiming that he was not a \u2018whole\u2019 person, as he had damaged fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The King was then free to go. He later realized that Purohitha had in fact been right, the celebrants had let him go because he was missing a finger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He went back looking for Purohitha. Pulling Purohitha out of the pit, the King asked him for forgiveness, to which Purohitha replied \u2018I am grateful to you, for if you had not thrown me into this pit, I would have accompanied you. And once the celebrants deemed you unfit for the sacrifice, they would have taken me instead, as I am a \u2018whole\u2019 person\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, we too shall think that everything happens for a reason , the Minister concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Ceylon Today Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi who was appointed as the Minister of Transport in a cabinet reshuffle that took place earlier today (16) bid farewell to her former staff at the Health Ministry this afternoon. A special meeting was held at the Ministry of Health to bid farewell to Wanniarachchi and welcome newly appointed […]<\/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-117212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117212","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=117212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}