{"id":6879,"date":"2019-07-22T05:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T05:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6879"},"modified":"2019-07-22T05:39:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T05:39:05","slug":"slmc-decides-not-to-accept-ministerial-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/slmc-decides-not-to-accept-ministerial-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"SLMC decides not to accept Ministerial posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) has decided not to accept Ministerial posts at the moment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At a meeting today the SLMC had decided it will not accept Ministerial portfolios until issues faced by the Muslims are addressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">All Muslim Ministers resigned from their portfolios in the Government in early June.<\/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\">However, later last month Parliamentarians Kabir Hashim and Abdul Haleem, who had resigned as Ministers in the cabinet, took oaths as Ministers once again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Muslim Ministers resigned saying they are giving the Government one month to ensure the authorities investigate the allegations made against some Muslims Ministers over the Easter Sunday attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The former Ministers had said that they will continue to support the Government and would expect the Government to protect the Muslim community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) has decided not to accept Ministerial posts at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6880,"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-6879","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\/6879","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=6879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}