{"id":64978,"date":"2017-04-06T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T22:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=64978"},"modified":"2017-04-06T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T22:36:01","slug":"yahapalana-cart-pulled-in-different-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/04\/06\/yahapalana-cart-pulled-in-different-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"YAHAPALANA CART PULLED IN DIFFERENT DIRECTION\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When you read the news daily you note following,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Handing over Trinco Oil Tank Farm to India :Petroleum Ministry Oppose move .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hambantota project: Stinging protest by Ports Minister\u00a0 &#8211;<em>Ranatunga alleges draft deal gives unilateral powers<\/em> <em>to Chinese company.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three Ministers oppose SAITM .<\/li>\n<li>Co-sponsoring of Resolution at UNHRC \u2013 Cabinet Minister Slams Government decision..<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lankabusinessonline.com\/sri-lankas-president-opposes-planned-vat-hike\/\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s President opposes planned VAT hike<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Education budget: Ministers throw the book at each other Education Minister.. Akila Viraj Kariyawasam yesterday hit back at Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake, who had charged that the Education Ministry\u2019s 2017 budgetary allocation was cut because this year\u2019s allocation was under underutilized.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.lk\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjQupjJoo_TAhXGwI8KHYeRA60QFggYMAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsrilankamirror.com%2Fnews%2F1463-sajith-tells-cabinet-he-will-resign-in-protest&amp;usg=AFQjCNHTFEVEn0wFmXrqdONoEOPEE8Ohxw&amp;sig2=iXx9_xHu4epiNwnTmrp05Q\">Sajith tells cabinet he will resign in protest for not allocating promised funds fro housing &#8211; \u2026.<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>All the statements you read above are from daily newspapers during the last two years .I am sure that such news were never heard before Yahapalana\u00a0 Regime .<\/p>\n<p>Question is can the Yahaplana Cart move ahead when it is being pulled in different direction?<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera When you read the news daily you note following, Handing over Trinco Oil Tank Farm to India :Petroleum Ministry Oppose move . \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hambantota project: Stinging protest by Ports Minister\u00a0 &#8211;Ranatunga alleges draft deal gives unilateral powers to Chinese company. Three Ministers oppose SAITM . Co-sponsoring of Resolution at UNHRC \u2013 Cabinet [&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-64978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64978","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=64978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}