{"id":22105,"date":"2023-10-23T12:37:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T07:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=22105"},"modified":"2023-10-25T10:31:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T05:01:28","slug":"ranil-shuffles-cabinet-health-taken-away-from-keheliya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=22105","title":{"rendered":"Ranil shuffles cabinet again; Health taken away from Keheliya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Ranil Wickremesinghe has changed several ministerial positions.<br \/>Accordingly, Mahinda Amaraweera, the Agriculture Cabinet Minister, has been appointed the Agriculture and Plantation Industry Cabinet Minister.<br \/>Keheliya Rambukwella, who was the cabinet health minister, has been appointed as the environment cabinet minister, replacing Nasir Ahmed, who lost his seat in the cabinet.<br \/>Ramesh Pathirana, who previously served as Cabinet Minister of Plantation Industries, has been appointed Cabinet Minister of Industries.<br \/>Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, who previously served as Minister of State for Finance, has been appointed the non-cabinet Minister for Plantation Industries.<br \/>Political commentators say that the shuffling of ministerial posts confirms President Ranil Wickremesinghe\u2019s move to protect ministers who have been accused of extreme corruption.<\/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-22105' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=22105&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-22105' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-22105' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-22105' 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-22105'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-22105' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-22105 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ranil Wickremesinghe has changed several ministerial positions.Accordingly, Mahinda Amaraweera, the Agriculture Cabinet Minister, has been appointed the Agriculture and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-22105","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\/22105","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=22105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22108,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22105\/revisions\/22108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}