{"id":26842,"date":"2024-09-24T20:10:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T14:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=26842"},"modified":"2024-09-26T20:51:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T15:21:04","slug":"vijitha-herath-takes-oath-as-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=26842","title":{"rendered":"Vijitha Herath takes oath as minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National People&#8217;s Power Member of Parliament Vijitha Herath was sworn in as a minister before President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.<br \/>He was sworn in as the minister of Buddha Sasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs, National Integration, Social Security, Mass Media, Transport and Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation, Public Security, Foreign Affairs, Environment, Wildlife, Forest Resources, Water Supply, Plantation, Community Infrastructure, Rural and Urban Development, Housing and Construction.<br \/>Minister Vijitha Herath also served as the Minister of Cultural Affairs in the 2004 coalition government for 14 months.<\/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-26842' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=26842&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-26842' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-26842' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-26842' 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-26842'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-26842' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-26842 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National People&#8217;s Power Member of Parliament Vijitha Herath was sworn in as a minister before President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26843,"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-26842","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\/26842","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=26842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26844,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26842\/revisions\/26844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}