{"id":67527,"date":"2017-07-03T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67527"},"modified":"2017-07-03T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T00:00:05","slug":"two-ministers-i-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/03\/two-ministers-i-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"TWO MINISTERS I RESPECT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Ex Chairman \u2013SLLRDC<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When we watch TV news ,Minister Sajith is trotting around the country and opens new housing schemes in the rural areas.He does not make any meaningless statements about the state of affairs\u00a0 \u00a0in the country .He may talk about Mahinda Rajapakse or GMOA and talks to the point .My wife keeps telling me that he is seem to be only minister who does something. Last week I saw a housing complex near the Premadasa Stadium being opened by the president ,but sadly he was not invited as the Housing Minister .His team of ex R\u00a0 Premadasa era are advising him correctly \u00a0.Housing Ministry is a stepping stone for Kingship in the country<\/p>\n<p>Then we have minister of Fisheries .Except his political role as the secretary to UPFA ,he does a yeoman service to Fishery Community . He has revived Fishery Corporation and advised Fishery Harbour Corporation to use private sector as much as possible to improve efficiency. He does nor go around the country and talks nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Both parties should get together and Promote Sajith as the\u00a0 President from UNP and Fishery Minister Amaraweera as the Prime Minister\u00a0\u00a0 in the next election .<\/p>\n<p>Task masters from previous government with clean record may join this combination<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Ex Chairman \u2013SLLRDC When we watch TV news ,Minister Sajith is trotting around the country and opens new housing schemes in the rural areas.He does not make any meaningless statements about the state of affairs\u00a0 \u00a0in the country .He may talk about Mahinda Rajapakse or GMOA and talks to the point .My [&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-67527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67527","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=67527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}