{"id":68705,"date":"2017-08-09T17:09:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T00:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68705"},"modified":"2017-08-09T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T00:09:14","slug":"ravi-to-quit-shortly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/09\/ravi-to-quit-shortly\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravi to quit shortly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Akitha Perera and Upali de Saram\u00a0Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"article_date\">August 9, 2017, 10:42 pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following a meeting with President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday at the Presidential Secretariat, Foreign Minister Karunanayake is likely to quit his portfolio shortly, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">A government spokesman said Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, too, had attended the meeting at President Sirisena\u2019s request.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.island.lk\/modules\/modPublication\/article_title_images\/1696965264p1-1.jpg\" alt=\"article_image\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Several SLFP ministers have demanded Karunanayake\u2019s resignation pending the presidential commission of inquiry probe into alleged Central Bank-Perpetual Treasuries bond scams. They have called upon him to quit without facing the Joint Opposition\u2019s no-faith motion.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Minister Karunanayake didn\u2019t attend Cabinet meeting yesterday.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">At the Cabinet meeting several ministers voiced concern over the way the Attorney General\u2019s Department had questioned the Finance Minister on Aug 2. Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne claimed that the Attorney General\u2019s Department had acted differently in cases where the bigwigs of the previous administration were implicated.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Minister Senaratne said the AG\u2019s Department should swiftly act on those cases, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Akitha Perera and Upali de Saram\u00a0Courtesy The Island August 9, 2017, 10:42 pm Following a meeting with President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday at the Presidential Secretariat, Foreign Minister Karunanayake is likely to quit his portfolio shortly, according to sources. A government spokesman said Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, too, had attended the meeting at President Sirisena\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68705","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=68705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}