{"id":178359,"date":"2017-06-05T01:06:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=178359"},"modified":"2017-06-06T00:49:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T19:19:53","slug":"petition-launched-calling-for-disaster-management-minister-yapas-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/petition-launched-calling-for-disaster-management-minister-yapas-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition Launched Calling For Disaster Management Minister Yapa&#8217;s Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rights activists have launched <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.avaaz.org\/en\/petition\/anur_priydrshn_yaapaa_shrii_lNkaavee_aapdaa_kllmnaakrnn_aemti_anur_yaapaa_illaa_asvenn\/\">an online petition<\/a>\u00a0seeking\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Minister of Disaster Management<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Anura+Priyadarshana+Yapa\">Anura Priyadarshana Yapa<\/a>&#8216;s resignation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been a year since the last year\u2019s flood and some of the displaced are still displaced. 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You must resign&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>To sign the petition click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.avaaz.org\/en\/petition\/anur_priydrshn_yaapaa_shrii_lNkaavee_aapdaa_kllmnaakrnn_aemti_anur_yaapaa_illaa_asvenn\/\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":178362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","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>Petition Launched Calling For Disaster Management Minister Yapa&#039;s Resignation - 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