{"id":400,"date":"2016-12-01T06:44:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T06:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=400"},"modified":"2016-12-01T06:44:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T06:44:33","slug":"tna-reiterates-call-for-meaningful-devolution-of-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/tna-reiterates-call-for-meaningful-devolution-of-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"TNA reiterates call for meaningful devolution of powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) today reiterated calls for meaningful devolution of powers to the provinces.<\/p>\n<p>TNA Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran said that the TNA will not support a unitary system of governance.<\/p>\n<p>Sumanthiran said the provisions in the new Constitution must ensure the country cannot be divided.<\/p>\n<p>He told Parliament that while the TNA is committed towards an undivided country there needs to be meaningful devolution of powers.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) today reiterated calls for meaningful devolution of powers to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":172,"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-400","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\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}