{"id":90129,"date":"2019-06-10T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90129"},"modified":"2019-06-10T15:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T22:01:31","slug":"acting-ministers-appointed-to-posts-vacated-by-muslim-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/10\/acting-ministers-appointed-to-posts-vacated-by-muslim-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting Ministers appointed to posts vacated by Muslim ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Acting Ministers have been appointed to the ministerial portfolios made vacant following the resignation of Muslim ministers a short while ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The acting ministers took oath before President Maithripala Sirisena at the President\u2019s House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, Deputy Minister Buddhika Pathirana has been appointed as the Acting Minister of Industry and Commerce, Co-operative Development, Vocational Training &amp; Skills Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d89\u0dc0\u0dad\u0dca \u0dc0\u0dd4 \u0d85\u0db8\u0dcf\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dda \u0d85\u0db8\u0dcf\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dcf\u0d82\u0dc1\u0dc0\u0dbd \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0da9 \u0db6\u0dbd\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1 \u0db1\u0dc0 \u0d87\u0db8\u0dad\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dd4 \u0dad\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dd9\u0d9a\u0dca\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H3S3ZdaTLDg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Acting Ministers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Minister Buddhika Pathirana &#8211; Acting Minister of Industry and Commerce, Co-operative Development, Vocational Training &amp; Skills Development<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State Minister Lucky Jayawardena \u2013 Acting Minister of City Planning, Water Supply and Higher Education<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Minister Anoma Gamage \u2013 Acting Minister of Petroleum Resources, Highways and Road Development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Acting Ministers have been appointed to the ministerial portfolios made vacant following the resignation of Muslim ministers a short while ago. The acting ministers took oath before President Maithripala Sirisena at the President\u2019s House. Accordingly, Deputy Minister Buddhika Pathirana has been appointed as the Acting Minister of Industry and Commerce, Co-operative Development, Vocational [&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-90129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90129","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=90129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}