{"id":28350,"date":"2025-06-23T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28350"},"modified":"2025-06-23T18:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:24:13","slug":"npp-secures-control-of-kalutara-municipal-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28350","title":{"rendered":"NPP Secures Control of Kalutara Municipal Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National People\u2019s Power (NPP) has gained control of the Kalutara Municipal Council, marking a notable advancement for the party at the local government level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dhanoj Somaratne, representing the NPP, was elected with 17 votes. The opposition received 13 votes, while one vote was declared invalid.<\/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-28350' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=28350&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-28350' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-28350' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-28350' 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-28350'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-28350' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-28350 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National People\u2019s Power (NPP) has gained control of the Kalutara Municipal Council, marking a notable advancement for the party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28351,"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-28350","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\/28350","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=28350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28352,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28350\/revisions\/28352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}