{"id":4914,"date":"2018-12-26T02:34:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T02:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2018-12-26T02:34:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T02:34:23","slug":"sampanthan-continues-to-hog-opposition-leaders-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sampanthan-continues-to-hog-opposition-leaders-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Sampanthan continues to hog Opposition Leader\u2019s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa would assume duties in the second week of December at the Opposition Leader\u2019s office at Marcus Fernando Mawatha, Colombo-07, an Opposition spokesman yesterday said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rohan Welivita, however, said that former Opposition leader R. Sampanthan was still occupying the Opposition Leader\u2019s office, claiming to be the Opposition Leader.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Cabinet was expected to decide on a person to be appointed as the Secretary to the Leader of Opposition on January 02, Welivita said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Leader of the Opposition is required to nominate an SLAS Officer as his secretary for Cabinet approval, &#8220;We have decided on a nominee and we expect a positive decision soon&#8221;, Welivita said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: The Island<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa would assume duties in the second week of December at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4915,"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-4914","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\/4914","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=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}