{"id":28599,"date":"2026-07-21T10:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28599"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:08:53","slug":"minister-handunneththi-exposes-oppositionss-falsehoods-over-15000-new-entrepreneurs-emerging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28599","title":{"rendered":"Minister Handunneththi Exposes Oppositions&#8217;s Falsehoods: Over 15,000 New Entrepreneurs Emerging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite baseless propaganda spread by Namal Rajapaksa and opposition groups claiming that industries are collapsing and shutting down under the current administration, over 15,000 new entrepreneurs have successfully emerged across the island recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minister of Small Industry and Entrepreneurship Development, Sunil Handunneththi, revealed these facts during his appearance on the Siyatha &#8216;TURNING POINT&#8217; political discussion program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing the unfounded claims made by opposition political groups regarding the current economic climate, Minister Handunneththi presented clear evidence and statistics to debunk their allegations and clarify the actual progress being made within the country&#8217;s industrial sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the full discussion below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"\ud83d\udd34 Live || Turning Point || Sunil Handunneththi || 20 - 07 - 2026 || Siyatha TV\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IKXhoJOmxIY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-28599' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=28599&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-28599' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-28599' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-28599' 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-28599'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-28599' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-28599 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite baseless propaganda spread by Namal Rajapaksa and opposition groups claiming that industries are collapsing and shutting down under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28600,"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":[106,94,97,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-latest","category-smartphones","category-political","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28599","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=28599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28601,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28599\/revisions\/28601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}