{"id":121756,"date":"2022-01-04T15:41:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T22:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121756"},"modified":"2022-01-04T15:41:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T22:41:59","slug":"removal-from-post-a-blessing-in-disguise-susil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/04\/removal-from-post-a-blessing-in-disguise-susil\/","title":{"rendered":"Removal from post a blessing in disguise: Susil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>President&#8217;s decision to remove him from his post is a blessing in disguise, Former State Minister Susil Premajayantha said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is a blessing in disguise as remaining as a state minister would have been an issue considering the ways the country is being administered currently,&#8221; Mr. Premajayantha told journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &#8220;I have been removed as I spoke on high cost of living. I was asked by a journalist on vegetable prices and I said the government&#8217;s agriculture policy has been a failure. This is why I was removed. I only spoke on behalf of the people,&#8221; he added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, the former state Minister said President has powers even to remove the Prime Minister under the 20th amendment to the constitution.\u00a0<strong>(Yohan Perera)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/latest_news\/Removal-from-post-a-blessing-in-disguise-Susil\/342-228304\">https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/latest_news\/Removal-from-post-a-blessing-in-disguise-Susil\/342-228304<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror President&#8217;s decision to remove him from his post is a blessing in disguise, Former State Minister Susil Premajayantha said today. &#8220;It is a blessing in disguise as remaining as a state minister would have been an issue considering the ways the country is being administered currently,&#8221; Mr. Premajayantha told journalists. &nbsp; [&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-121756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121756","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=121756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}