{"id":45581,"date":"2015-07-11T23:27:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T06:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=45581"},"modified":"2015-07-11T23:27:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T06:27:20","slug":"ranil-promises-devolution-of-power-to-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/11\/ranil-promises-devolution-of-power-to-provinces\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil promises devolution of power to provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has promised power devolution to the island\u2019s provinces as part of the reconciliation process with the minority Tamils ahead of the August 17 parliamentary election, the PTI reproted.<br \/>\nHis government would look to devolve power in an undivided island, Wickremesinghe said.<br \/>\nThe Tamil minority has been urging for power to the north and east provinces since the LTTE\u2019s military campaign ended in 2009.<br \/>\nThe premier said the private lands acquired for military purposes in the former conflict zones will be returned to their owners after the election.<br \/>\nWickremesinghe made the remarks &#8211; being seen as his first policy statement for the polls &#8211; while addressing his United National Party (UNP) special convention which adopted a resolution to work as a broader political front to pursue good governance and democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaderana Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has promised power devolution to the island\u2019s provinces as part of the reconciliation process with the minority Tamils ahead of the August 17 parliamentary election, the PTI reproted. His government would look to devolve power in an undivided island, Wickremesinghe said. The Tamil minority has been urging for power to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45581","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=45581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}