{"id":124591,"date":"2022-04-22T15:46:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T22:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=124591"},"modified":"2022-04-22T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T22:46:14","slug":"i-delayed-ncm-against-govt-ranil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/04\/22\/i-delayed-ncm-against-govt-ranil\/","title":{"rendered":"I delayed NCM against govt.: Ranil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today the no-confidence motion against the government was delayed following a request made by him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said this when Leader of the House Dinesh Gunawardena asked as to why the opposition didn&#8217;t bring in the no-confidence motion against the government as planned earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The opposition said that they would bring in the no-confidence motion against the government. It is Friday today. Why it is not presented as said?,&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Wickremesinghe said that it was absurd brining in the no-confidence motion before the speech of the finance minister who is in Washington to engaged in discussions with the IMF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I requested to delay the NCM. It would serve no purpose brining in the NCM before the Finance Minister&#8217;s speech. We can get together and discuss what should be done after his speech,&#8221; he said. (Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today the no-confidence motion against the government was delayed following a request made by him. He said this when Leader of the House Dinesh Gunawardena asked as to why the opposition didn&#8217;t bring in the no-confidence motion against the government as planned earlier. &#8220;The opposition [&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-124591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124591","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=124591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}