{"id":91257,"date":"2019-07-11T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91257"},"modified":"2019-07-11T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:55:00","slug":"muslim-mps-decide-to-take-up-ministerial-posts-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/11\/muslim-mps-decide-to-take-up-ministerial-posts-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim MPs decide to take up ministerial posts again"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>All Muslim parliamentarians who resigned from their ministerial portfolios have decided to accept their previous positions once again, MP Amir Ali said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a press conference on June 03, all Muslim cabinet, non-cabinet, state, and deputy ministers announced that they would resign from their portfolios.<\/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\u0dd6 \u0db8\u0dd4\u0dc3\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0db8\u0dca \u0d87\u0db8\u0dad\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dd4 \u0dba\u0dc5\u0dd2 \u0d85\u0db8\u0dcf\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dba \u0db0\u0dd6\u0dbb \u0db7\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0d9c\u0dd0\u0db1\u0dd3\u0db8\u0dda \u0dad\u0dd3\u0dbb\u0dab\u0dba\u0d9a...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dehYsfsQp9E?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>The MPs said their resignations would allow investigators to probe the claims without interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the four ministers and five junior ministers only resigned from their portfolios, not from the government or their respective parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mahanayake Theros of Tri-Nikayas had later requested the Muslim MPs to re-accept their ministerial posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On June 19, two UNP Parliamentarians from the group, Kabir Hashim and Abdul Haleem, were sworn into the ministerial positions held by them before tendering their resignations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hashim was reappointed as the Minister of Highways &amp; Road Development and Petroleum Resources Development while Haleem was sworn in again as the Minister of Postal Services &amp; Muslim Religious Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana All Muslim parliamentarians who resigned from their ministerial portfolios have decided to accept their previous positions once again, MP Amir Ali said. At a press conference on June 03, all Muslim cabinet, non-cabinet, state, and deputy ministers announced that they would resign from their portfolios. The MPs said their resignations would allow investigators [&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-91257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91257","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=91257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}