{"id":140294,"date":"2024-02-08T15:11:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T22:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=140294"},"modified":"2024-02-08T15:11:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T22:11:34","slug":"issuance-of-freehold-titles-could-lead-to-unforseen-crisis-warns-phu-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/02\/08\/issuance-of-freehold-titles-could-lead-to-unforseen-crisis-warns-phu-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Issuance of freehold titles could lead to unforseen crisis, warns PHU leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/island.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/udaya-gammanpila.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Gammanpila<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader Udaya Gammanpila, MP, yesterday (06) alleged that the decision to issue freehold titles to farmers could cause a catastrophic situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Declaring that President Ranil Wickremesinghe had launched the first phase of the&nbsp;<em>Urumaya<\/em>&nbsp;programme with an eye to the presidential polls, the former Power and Energy Minister asked whether the government was prepared to face a fresh crisis as a large number of farmers mortgaged their land because of wide scale poverty\/indebtedness among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the media at the PHU office, at Pita Kotte, lawmaker Gammanpila emphasised that the previous government had refrained from issuing freehold titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MP Gammanpila said that a vast majority of politicians wouldn\u2019t dare to criticise the incumbent government over this highly irresponsible move as they feared farmers would turn against them. The ex-Minister said that whatever the consequences he wouldn\u2019t hesitate to warn the country and the Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa government of the danger of issuance of freehold titles to farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gammanpila told&nbsp;<em>The Island<\/em>&nbsp;that the possibility of influential companies, both local and foreign, seeking to exploit the farmers\u2019 situation couldn\u2019t be ruled out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MP Gammanpila said that a significant number of farmers could lose their land overnight and end up in towns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Wickremesinghe announced the plan to issue freehold titles in his Budget 2024.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Island Gammanpila Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader Udaya Gammanpila, MP, yesterday (06) alleged that the decision to issue freehold titles to farmers could cause a catastrophic situation. Declaring that President Ranil Wickremesinghe had launched the first phase of the&nbsp;Urumaya&nbsp;programme with an eye to the presidential polls, the former Power and Energy Minister asked [&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-140294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140294","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=140294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}