{"id":88188,"date":"2019-05-04T15:12:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T22:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88188"},"modified":"2019-05-04T15:12:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T22:12:25","slug":"minister-of-law-and-order-prez-rejects-request-to-appoint-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/04\/minister-of-law-and-order-prez-rejects-request-to-appoint-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister of Law and Order &#8211; Prez rejects request to appoint SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">President Maithripala Sirisena is reported to have refused Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe&#8217;s request to appoint UNP MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka as the Law and Order Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A UNP delegation led by the Prime Minister met the President on Wednesday to make the request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President flatly turned down the request saying it would have dire consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ministers Lakshman Kiriella, Kabir Hashim, and Malik Samarawickrama accompanied the Prime Minister to the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UNP urged that Mr. Fonseka, a wartime Army Commander, be appointed the Law and Order Ministry which is currently under the President.&nbsp;<em><strong>(Kelum Bandara)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Maithripala Sirisena is reported to have refused Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe&#8217;s request to appoint UNP MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka as the Law and Order Minister. A UNP delegation led by the Prime Minister met the President on Wednesday to make the request. The President flatly turned down the request [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88188","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=88188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}