{"id":129144,"date":"2022-10-11T15:49:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T22:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129144"},"modified":"2022-10-11T15:49:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T22:49:38","slug":"presidents-office-strikes-at-bandula-says-sl-will-remain-middle-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/10\/11\/presidents-office-strikes-at-bandula-says-sl-will-remain-middle-income\/","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s office strikes at Bandula, says SL will remain \u2019middle income\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Contradicting Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawardane, President&#8217;s Media Division (PMD) said Sri Lanka will remain a middle-income country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PMD said in a statment that the government is pursuing a &#8220;reverse graduation&#8221; policy for a limited period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawardane told the weekly Cabinet briefing this morning that the cabinet of ministers had approved a proposal to downgraded Sri Lanka from a middle income to low income status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The immediate rectification by the President&#8217;s Office seems to show a rift between the Cabinet of Ministers and President Ranil Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Contradicting Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawardane, President&#8217;s Media Division (PMD) said Sri Lanka will remain a middle-income country. The PMD said in a statment that the government is pursuing a &#8220;reverse graduation&#8221; policy for a limited period of time. Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawardane told the weekly Cabinet briefing this morning that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129144","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=129144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}