{"id":47268,"date":"2015-08-23T15:01:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T22:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47268"},"modified":"2015-08-23T15:01:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T22:01:26","slug":"on-slfp-cabinet-quota-champika-m-k-a-d-s-rajitha-arjuna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/23\/on-slfp-cabinet-quota-champika-m-k-a-d-s-rajitha-arjuna\/","title":{"rendered":"On SLFP CABINET QUOTA &#8211; Champika \u2013 M.K.A.D.S. \u2013 Rajitha \u2013 Arjuna&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>The new Cabinet of Ministers of the new government, set to take oaths tomorrow (25) is said to be comprised of 30 MPs including 16 from the United National Party (UNP) and 14 from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).<\/p>\n<p>According to SLFP sources, the 14 ministerial portfolios to be given to the SLFP will include M.K.D.S. Gunawardena who was appointed through the UNP national list along with Arjuna Ranatunga, Patali Champika Ranawaka and Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, all three of whom contested at the General Election from the UNP ticket.<\/p>\n<p>As per provisions in the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, the number of MPs in the Cabinet when establishing a National Government is to be decided by the Parliament and therefore it is expected that the number of ministers in the Cabinet would be exceeding 30 following the Parliament convening on 1, September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ceylon Today The new Cabinet of Ministers of the new government, set to take oaths tomorrow (25) is said to be comprised of 30 MPs including 16 from the United National Party (UNP) and 14 from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). According to SLFP sources, the 14 ministerial portfolios to be given 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-47268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47268","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=47268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}