{"id":125296,"date":"2022-05-14T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T21:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=125296"},"modified":"2022-05-14T14:51:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T21:51:51","slug":"four-new-cabinet-ministers-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/05\/14\/four-new-cabinet-ministers-sworn-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Four new Cabinet ministers sworn in"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed four new Cabinet ministers today (May 14) to maintain the affairs of the Parliament and other functions of the country legitimately and stably until a full Cabinet is appointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The swearing-in ceremony took place at the President\u2019s House in Colombo this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the President\u2019s Media Division (PMD), the following parliamentarians were sworn in before the President:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prof. G.L. Peiris \u2013 Minister of Foreign Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dinesh Gunawardena \u2013 Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prasanna Ranatunga \u2013 Minister of Urban Development and Housing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kanchana Wijesekara \u2013 Minister of Power and Energy<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed four new Cabinet ministers today (May 14) to maintain the affairs of the Parliament and other functions of the country legitimately and stably until a full Cabinet is appointed. The swearing-in ceremony took place at the President\u2019s House in Colombo this afternoon. According to the President\u2019s Media Division (PMD), [&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-125296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125296","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=125296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}