{"id":8096,"date":"2020-02-09T07:47:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T07:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8096"},"modified":"2020-02-09T07:47:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T07:47:29","slug":"speaker-karu-jayasuriya-says-he-is-ready-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/speaker-karu-jayasuriya-says-he-is-ready-to-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Karu Jayasuriya says he is ready to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaker Karu Jayasuriya says he is ready to step down from the post and defended his actions over the past five years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking to Chief Prelates in Kandy today, the Speaker said that his appeal to the public is to ensure they elect individuals to Parliament who can be respected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Speaker said that his hands were clean and that he ensured democracy was protected during the five years he held office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Later, speaking to reporters, the Speaker said that he had never used Government funds to purchase a new vehicle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that he continues to use the vehicle used by the former Speaker and wears the Speaker\u2019s uniform worn by the former Speaker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Karu Jayasuriya says he is ready to step down from the post and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8097,"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-8096","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\/8096","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=8096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}