{"id":6536,"date":"2019-06-06T04:33:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T04:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6536"},"modified":"2019-06-06T04:33:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T04:33:29","slug":"chief-prelates-urge-muslim-ministers-to-resume-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/chief-prelates-urge-muslim-ministers-to-resume-duties\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Prelates urge Muslim Ministers to resume duties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Chief Prelates in Kandy today urged Muslim Ministers who had resigned from their portfolios this week, to resume their Government duties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Chief Prelates of all the Buddhist Chapters had a special meeting today on the situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking to reporters later the Anunayake of the Malwatte Chapter, the Venerable Rajakeeya Panditha Niyangoda Vijithasiri Thero said that it was decided to submit a set of policy proposals to the Government and the public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The monk also said that the Chief Prelates were of the opinion the resignation of the Muslim Ministers should not have happened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that instead, any Muslim Minister facing accusations should come forward and prove his innocence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">All Muslim Ministers, including Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, resigned from their portfolios in the Government this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">All Muslim State and Deputy Ministers had also tendered their resignations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Prelates in Kandy today urged Muslim Ministers who had resigned from their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6537,"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-6536","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\/6536","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=6536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}