{"id":139574,"date":"2024-01-09T16:13:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T23:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139574"},"modified":"2024-01-09T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T23:13:20","slug":"office-for-national-unity-and-reconciliation-bill-passed-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/01\/09\/office-for-national-unity-and-reconciliation-bill-passed-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Office for National Unity and Reconciliation Bill passed in parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Office for National Unity and Reconciliation Bill debated in Parliament today (Jan. 09) has been passed by a majority vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The debate on the Second Reading of the Bill was held from 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and at the end of the debate, MP G. G. Ponnambalam of Ahila Ilankai Thamil Congress (AITC) called for a division for the said Bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the voting held, 48 votes had been cast in favour of the Bill while only 7 votes were cast against. Accordingly, the Second Reading of the Bill was passed by a majority of 41 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amendments were added to the Bill during the Committee and accordingly the Bill was passed with amendments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the National Hydrographic Bill, which was debated today, was also passed with amendments and without a vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Office for National Unity and Reconciliation Bill debated in Parliament today (Jan. 09) has been passed by a majority vote. The debate on the Second Reading of the Bill was held from 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and at the end of the debate, MP G. G. Ponnambalam of Ahila Ilankai Thamil [&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-139574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139574","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=139574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}