{"id":46089,"date":"2015-07-24T04:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T11:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=46089"},"modified":"2015-07-24T04:30:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T11:30:36","slug":"minister-janaka-bandara-tennakoon-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/24\/minister-janaka-bandara-tennakoon-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Janaka Bandara Tennakoon to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Minister of Provincial Councils and Regional Development, Janaka Bandara Tennakoon, says that he will be resigning from his ministerial portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Tennakoon, who is a Senior Vice President of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), is to hand over his resignation letter to President Maithripala Sirisena today.<\/p>\n<p>He is believed to be resigning due to the recent special statement made by the President, in which he had declared that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa would lose the election once again.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Minister Janaka Bandara Tennakoon to resign\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/plc4MoCark0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tennakoon had expressed concern following the remarks that had been made by the President while stating that it would be a disadvantage for the party ahead of the August election.<\/p>\n<p>Tennakoon, who was sworn in as a minister on March 22, is the fourth SLFP member to quit the government in protest to President Sirisena\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, Dr Sudarshani Fernandopulle, Lasantha Alagiyawanna and Eric Prasanna Weerawardena resigned from their respective Deputy Ministerial portfolios citing the same reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Provincial Councils and Regional Development, Janaka Bandara Tennakoon, says that he will be resigning from his ministerial portfolio. Tennakoon, who is a Senior Vice President of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), is to hand over his resignation letter to President Maithripala Sirisena today. He is believed to be resigning due [&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-46089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46089","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=46089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}