{"id":16750,"date":"2022-01-08T14:01:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T08:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=16750"},"modified":"2022-01-08T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T08:36:11","slug":"slfp-slpp-split-eminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=16750","title":{"rendered":"SLFP \u2013 SLPP split imminent?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been revealed that SLPP leaders have discussed the removal of SLFP ministers in the forthcoming cabinet reshuffle due to them criticizing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the government.<br \/>According to political sources, the cabinet reshuffle is expected to occur on the 10th of this month. The SLFP holds two cabinet portfolios and two state ministerial portfolios in President Gotabaya Rajapaksa&#8217;s government. There are 14 SLFP MPs in parliament.<br \/>SLFP MPs Nimal Siripala de Silva and Mahinda Amaraweera as cabinet ministers and Lasantha Alagiyawanna, Dayasiri Jayasekara and Duminda Dissanayake as state ministers are in Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s government.<br \/>The Gotabhaya Rajapaksa government has long been critical of SLFP MPs as well as ministers, while former President Maithripala Sirisena, as the President of the SLFP, has on several occasions criticized the government. With the removal of Minister Susil Premajayantha from the ministry, it is reported that all SLFP members have started severely criticizing the government, and the government will have to remove the SLFP members from their ministerial posts.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-16750' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=16750&amp;comments=1&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='1 Comment'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>1<\/span> Comment<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-16750' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-16750' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-16750' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-16750'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-16750' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-16750 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been revealed that SLPP leaders have discussed the removal of SLFP ministers in the forthcoming cabinet reshuffle due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,97,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-smartphones","category-political","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}