{"id":144598,"date":"2024-10-02T14:28:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=144598"},"modified":"2024-10-02T14:28:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:28:48","slug":"roshan-ranasinghe-appointed-chairman-of-mjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/10\/02\/roshan-ranasinghe-appointed-chairman-of-mjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Roshan Ranasinghe appointed Chairman of MJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former Minister Roshan Ranasinghe has joined the Mawbima Janatha Party (MJP) led by entrepreneur Dilith Jayaweera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been appointed as the Chairman of the party.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, former Minister Prof. Channa Jayasumana has been appointed Vice Chairman of MJP.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former MP Milan Jayatilleke has been appointed party\u2019s Gampaha District Organiser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A former member of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Ranasinghe had previously served as Sports Minister and had also contested the recent presidential election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fcmb11-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t39.30808-6\/461851057_967354705198685_1372639667165684388_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=127cfc&amp;_nc_eui2=AeHIeHix7MeIXUO4p1nAT0kC0H7XFutf9OPQftcW61_0477UA3uCyPYsWgEQtrXCvXOc6N9Xdca-oyISOs3Sj83I&amp;_nc_ohc=mLfAXCIzBKYQ7kNvgHfja80&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fcmb11-1.fna&amp;_nc_gid=AFWLArSewSRTdcvpV0EIzCu&amp;oh=00_AYCbvxXeJh9JCf-4tC3qMS8P-nOGDCJQUvxl8SXdqt8mRA&amp;oe=670330EE\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fcmb11-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t39.30808-6\/461937412_967354625198693_5810399075282957401_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=127cfc&amp;_nc_eui2=AeGaHYtJXTdXT95vO0P4b86hilRn_LsDqlyKVGf8uwOqXONt2xdJdNfAyQyp-qcS3Tsh49esXuP-vupOSt63GESk&amp;_nc_ohc=9q70RAl8_cwQ7kNvgGXsyQD&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fcmb11-1.fna&amp;_nc_gid=AZ2N9qBWB52aonkwe0EKQc-&amp;oh=00_AYBRejxWclghczRA50ppu3V7yMIcxuV2-IfFloY80CriAw&amp;oe=67032045\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Former Minister Roshan Ranasinghe has joined the Mawbima Janatha Party (MJP) led by entrepreneur Dilith Jayaweera. He has been appointed as the Chairman of the party.&nbsp; Meanwhile, former Minister Prof. Channa Jayasumana has been appointed Vice Chairman of MJP.&nbsp; Former MP Milan Jayatilleke has been appointed party\u2019s Gampaha District Organiser. A former member [&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-144598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144598","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=144598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}