{"id":118933,"date":"2021-10-06T15:55:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T22:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118933"},"modified":"2021-10-06T15:55:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T22:55:19","slug":"alleged-transfer-of-national-resources-committee-appointed-to-investigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/06\/alleged-transfer-of-national-resources-committee-appointed-to-investigate\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged transfer of national resources &#8211; Committee appointed to investigate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has stated that a National Steering Committee headed by the Secretary-General of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya, Ranjith Madduma Bandara will be appointed to discuss the action to be taken against the alleged transfer of national resources by the Government to foreign companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was speaking at a discussion with trade union representatives of the United Alliance of Oil, Ports, and Electricity against the sale of national resources at the Opposition Leader&#8217;s Office today (06).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaders of the trade unions representing the Ports Petroleum Corporation and the Ceylon Electricity Board were present at the discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the United People&#8217;s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) today filed a fundamental rights petition in the Supreme Court seeking the annulment of a Cabinet resolution passed on April 27 banning the sale and use of chemical fertilizers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has stated that a National Steering Committee headed by the Secretary-General of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya, Ranjith Madduma Bandara will be appointed to discuss the action to be taken against the alleged transfer of national resources by the Government to foreign companies. He was speaking at a discussion [&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-118933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118933","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=118933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}