{"id":130305,"date":"2022-11-29T16:22:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T23:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=130305"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T23:22:45","slug":"ready-to-reintroduce-district-development-councils-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/29\/ready-to-reintroduce-district-development-councils-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to reintroduce district development councils: President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>President Ranil Wickremesinghe today said he is ready to reintroduce District Development Councils in place of Provincial Councils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President said this in Parliament when Former President Maithripala Sirisena proposed setting up of District Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former President I listened to your comments on District Development Councils and I am ready to do it,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is good and we in SLFP will fully support it,\u201d MP Sirisena responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ready to reintroduce district development councils: President\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wg_UD7Bm9aA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe today said he is ready to reintroduce District Development Councils in place of Provincial Councils. President said this in Parliament when Former President Maithripala Sirisena proposed setting up of District Council. Former President I listened to your comments on District Development Councils and I am ready to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130305","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=130305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}