{"id":1696,"date":"2017-07-31T17:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T17:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2017-07-31T17:55:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T17:55:51","slug":"government-briefs-monks-on-process-to-draft-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/government-briefs-monks-on-process-to-draft-new-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Government briefs monks on process to draft new Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Government today briefed the Chief Prelates on the progress of the process to draft a new Constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Minister of Megapolis and Western Development Champika Ranawaka said that misleading information is being spread about the Constitution drafting process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He asserted that everything that is being said are the views of individuals and is not part of the final document.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Minister recalled that even when Mahinda Rajapaksa was President an all party committee had submitted proposals for Constitutional amendments and several opinions were expressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ranawaka said that the ideas put forward at present by several political parties, including the joint opposition, are being studied yet nothing is final.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government today briefed the Chief Prelates on the progress of the process to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}