{"id":155727,"date":"2026-04-17T16:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=155727"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:18:01","slug":"energy-minister-jayakody-and-ministry-secretary-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/04\/17\/energy-minister-jayakody-and-ministry-secretary-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Minister Jayakody and Ministry Secretary resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody and Energy Ministry Secretary Professor Udayanga Hemapala resigned from their respective positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They submitted their resignation letters to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to facilitate an impartial and independent investigation by the Special Presidential Commission examining the coal importation process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody and Energy Ministry Secretary Professor Udayanga Hemapala resigned from their respective positions. They submitted their resignation letters to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to facilitate an impartial and independent investigation by the Special Presidential Commission examining the coal importation process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155727","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=155727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155728,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155727\/revisions\/155728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}