{"id":142131,"date":"2015-04-02T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T08:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=142131"},"modified":"2015-04-19T21:52:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T16:22:31","slug":"unp-is-sabotaging-efforts-to-establish-good-governance-resigned-d-minister-tissa-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/unp-is-sabotaging-efforts-to-establish-good-governance-resigned-d-minister-tissa-k\/","title":{"rendered":"UNP Is Sabotaging Efforts To Establish Good Governance: Resigned D. Minister Tissa K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly appointed Deputy Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Tissa+Karaliyadda&amp;x=9&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tissa Karalliyadda<\/span><\/a> has resigned from his portfolio today stating he cannot be part of a UNP government where all efforts taken to establish good governance in the country, are being sabotaged by the UNP.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_142132\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tissa-Karaliyadda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142132\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tissa-Karaliyadda.jpg\" alt=\"Tissa Karaliyadda\" width=\"148\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-142132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tissa Karaliyadda<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Karaliyadda who was appointed the Deputy Minister of Buddha Shasana and Democratic Rule over a week ago, when a national unity government was established between the UNP and the SLFP accused the UNP of sabotaging efforts taken to establish good governance in the country and said therefore, establishing the goals promised by the President has turned tough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will change my decision if the UNP Ministers prove they are committed to establishing good governance in this country,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister added that it is impossible to expect any positive changes in the country under the present government and had added that he wishes to be a Minister of a cabinet headed by a Prime Minister representing the SLFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":142132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UNP Is Sabotaging Efforts To Establish Good Governance: Resigned D. 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