{"id":4859,"date":"2018-12-20T15:33:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4859"},"modified":"2018-12-20T15:33:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:33:15","slug":"fonseka-and-range-bandara-still-listed-for-ministry-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/fonseka-and-range-bandara-still-listed-for-ministry-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fonseka and Range Bandara still listed for Ministry posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Ministers Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka and Range Bandara are still listed for Ministry posts, Minister Vajira Abeywardena said today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that there was an issue over Fonseka and Bandara and this resulted in the two not being appointed today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However Abeywardena said that Fonseka and Bandara are still in the list of names given by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to President Maithripala Sirisena as the nominees for Ministerial posts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that the Prime Minister was in talks with the President and Fonseka and Bandara are expected to be appointed as Ministers soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It was reported the President had refused to appoint Fonseka and Bandara as Ministers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Fonseka had been accused by the President of being part of a plot to kill him while Bandara had leaked an audio recording of the President attempting to get Bandara to join the Mahinda Rajapaksa Government before Wickremesinghe was made Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ministers Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka and Range Bandara are still listed for Ministry&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4860,"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-4859","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\/4859","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=4859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}