{"id":143828,"date":"2024-08-31T13:48:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T20:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=143828"},"modified":"2024-08-31T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T20:48:14","slug":"anura-kumara-vows-to-strengthen-public-transport-service-under-npp-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/08\/31\/anura-kumara-vows-to-strengthen-public-transport-service-under-npp-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Anura Kumara vows to strengthen public transport service under NPP govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>National People\u2019s Power (NPP) presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake has stated that a relief package will be provided under a NPP government until the country\u2019s economy stabilizes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has made these remarks while addressing a rally held in Kottawa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A large number of citizens in our country incur high expenses for transportation needs. Those who buy a car can buy a car. Those who buy a bike can buy a bike\u201d, he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, he said the NPP government will mainly focus on strengthening the public transport service. We will remove VAT on food through the very first budget proposal\u201d, said Anura Kumara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana National People\u2019s Power (NPP) presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake has stated that a relief package will be provided under a NPP government until the country\u2019s economy stabilizes.&nbsp; He has made these remarks while addressing a rally held in Kottawa.&nbsp; A large number of citizens in our country incur high expenses for transportation needs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jvp-promises","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143828","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=143828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}