{"id":153688,"date":"2025-12-16T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153688"},"modified":"2025-12-16T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:00:51","slug":"npp-will-take-disciplinary-action-against-ranwala-if-he-has-cheated-on-doctorate-nalinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/12\/16\/npp-will-take-disciplinary-action-against-ranwala-if-he-has-cheated-on-doctorate-nalinda\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP will take disciplinary action against Ranwala if he has cheated on doctorate: Nalinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Dec. 16 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The National People&#8217;s Power (NPP) will take disciplinary action against former Speaker Ashoka Ranwala if he has cheated on his doctorate, Health Minister Nalinda Jayatissa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said during a talk show on a private TV channel that the party has not decided what action to be taken against him in such an eventuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister said people who voted and not voted for the NPP have talked about the matter and said that their opinion must be considered when taking action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jayatissa said MP Ranwala had promised the party that he would submit the certificate soon, but he had not done it so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I once told the Cabinet briefing that Ranwala would submit the certificate soon. I said what Ranwala had told the party at that time. However, he has not submitted it so far,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec. 16 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The National People&#8217;s Power (NPP) will take disciplinary action against former Speaker Ashoka Ranwala if he has cheated on his doctorate, Health Minister Nalinda Jayatissa said. He said during a talk show on a private TV channel that the party has not decided what action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153688","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\/153688","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=153688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153689,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153688\/revisions\/153689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}