{"id":77242,"date":"2018-05-09T15:08:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T22:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=77242"},"modified":"2018-05-09T15:08:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T22:08:37","slug":"rajitha-becomes-speechless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/05\/09\/rajitha-becomes-speechless\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajitha becomes speechless\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Sheain Fernandopulle\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Cabinet spokesman and Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, Rajitha Senaratne became speechless during a news briefing held yesterday when a journalist asked about the appointment of Anuruddha Polgampola as the new Chairman of State Timber Corporation who had been arrested over two alleged major financial frauds during the past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Journalist<\/strong>: What is your stance on the President\u2019s appointment of Anuruddha Polgampola as the new Chairman of State Timber Corporation who had been arrested over two major financial frauds earlier?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minister<\/strong>: Anuruddha Polgampola was the one who went to Bribery Commission to lodge a complaint against me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Journalist<\/strong>: Is this your Good Governance to give him such a post merely because he was so active during the Local Government elections and supporting the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minister<\/strong>: Normally, such helpful persons are the ones who are appointed to such posts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Journalist<\/strong>: Your government is boasting that the portfolios are given according to scientific basis. Has any scientific basis been used to this appointment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minister<\/strong>: Even those who were appointed under the scientific basis have been caught and arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Minister Thalatha Atukorale who also participated in the news briefing was seen gesturing to the journalist who asked the questions stating that it is getting late. <em>Parakku Wenawa<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheain Fernandopulle\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror Cabinet spokesman and Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, Rajitha Senaratne became speechless during a news briefing held yesterday when a journalist asked about the appointment of Anuruddha Polgampola as the new Chairman of State Timber Corporation who had been arrested over two alleged major financial frauds during the [&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-77242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77242","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=77242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}