{"id":28295,"date":"2025-06-21T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28295"},"modified":"2025-06-21T09:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T04:23:01","slug":"dr-harshana-suriyapperuma-steps-down-from-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28295","title":{"rendered":"Dr Harshana Suriyapperuma Steps Down from Parliament\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Harshana Suriyapperuma has resigned from his position as a Member of Parliament, likely in preparation to take on the role of Secretary to the Ministry of Finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elected through the National List under the National People\u2019s Power, Dr Suriyapperuma also served as the Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning. His departure from Parliament is expected to pave the way for his appointment as the top official at the Finance Ministry, as Mahinda Siriwardena is due to retire from the post at the end of this month.<\/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-28295' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=28295&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-28295' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-28295' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-28295' 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-28295'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-28295' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-28295 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Harshana Suriyapperuma has resigned from his position as a Member of Parliament, likely in preparation to take on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28296,"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":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28295","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28297,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28295\/revisions\/28297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}