{"id":2154,"date":"2017-12-07T06:11:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T06:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2017-12-07T06:11:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T06:11:25","slug":"minister-says-land-and-police-powers-must-be-devolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/minister-says-land-and-police-powers-must-be-devolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister says land and police powers must be devolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A Government Minister today asserted that land and police powers must be devolved to the provinces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">State Minister Vijayakala Maheswaran told Parliament today that while land and police powers have been given to the provinces they are not implemented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">She said that the new Constitution which is being discussed must include devolution of powers to the provinces, including land and police powers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The State Minister said that a political solution to the national issue will also be reached through the new Constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Government Minister today asserted that land and police powers must be devolved to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2155,"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-2154","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\/2154","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=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}