{"id":84287,"date":"2018-12-20T09:37:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=84287"},"modified":"2018-12-20T09:37:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:37:57","slug":"why-did-sri-lankas-new-ministers-left-in-a-hurry-wearing-a-shocked-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/12\/20\/why-did-sri-lankas-new-ministers-left-in-a-hurry-wearing-a-shocked-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Sri Lanka\u2019s new Ministers left in a hurry wearing a shocked face?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-type-text field-field-place\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<h2 class=\"field-item odd\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Colombo, 20 December, Courtesy Asiantribune.com:<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s legitimate Cabinet of Ministers was sworn in on the morning of today 20 December-but with a twist!<span class=\"image-caption-container image-caption-container-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"id5295511038997567\" class=\"caption\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asiantribune.com\/sites\/asiantribune.com\/files\/images\/2012\/Maithripala%20Srisena_17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"285\" align=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to some MPs who were sworn in as Ministers this morning, their swearing in event was not what they expected.<\/p>\n<p>Usually the swearing in takes place when everyone who has been summoned is seated together and names of Ministers to be are called one by one -in the presence of all the new Cabinet Ministers.<\/p>\n<p>However, today Sri Lankan President Sirisena took a different beat. In that, all the Ministers to be\u201d were kept out of President\u2019s office room and in the hallway, and thereafter one by one were individually called in and handed over his Ministerial appointment.<\/p>\n<p>No Minister was aware what he would get until he saw the letter of appointment. Neither were they aware of the portfolio any other Minister would get -until everyone individually returned to their respective offices from the President\u2019s office and switched on their TV news.<\/p>\n<p>There was no group photo of the new Cabinet nor the usual tea party\/refreshments served.<\/p>\n<p>It is also now learnt that many Ministers sworn in were given a strong dressing down by the President, reminding their past misdeeds and performance issues\u201d before finally he signed and handed over their appointment letters.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, many newly appointed Ministers were seen wearing a shocked face\u201d as they were leaving the Presidential Secretariat after receiving their letters-an otherwise supposedly a happy event.!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Asian Tribune &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo, 20 December, Courtesy Asiantribune.com: Sri Lanka\u2019s legitimate Cabinet of Ministers was sworn in on the morning of today 20 December-but with a twist! According to some MPs who were sworn in as Ministers this morning, their swearing in event was not what they expected. Usually the swearing in takes place when everyone who has [&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-84287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84287","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=84287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}