{"id":9870,"date":"2020-10-04T05:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T05:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9870"},"modified":"2020-10-04T05:30:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T05:30:15","slug":"government-insists-no-move-to-rope-in-rishad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/government-insists-no-move-to-rope-in-rishad\/","title":{"rendered":"Government insists no move to rope in Rishad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government insisted that there is no move to give any post to former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Catholic Church suspected there was some hidden deal after Rishad Bathiudeen\u2019s brother, who was linked to the Easter Sunday attacks, was released on bail this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However a number of Ministers today insisted that Bathiudeen will not be given a post in the Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa said that the Government maintains its stand that it will not have any dealings with extremists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cabinet spokesman, Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said that since there are some concerns over Bathiudeen he should not be taken into the Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minister Wimal Weerawansa said that the Government is not stupid to have any deals with Bathiudeen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that if any attempt is made to allow Bathiudeen to join the Government he will be chased out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile Bathiudeen said that his party, the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC), does not have any agreement with the Government nor has it had any talks with the Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government insisted that there is no move to give any post to former&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9870","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=9870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}