{"id":8081,"date":"2023-01-11T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T09:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/?p=8081"},"modified":"2023-01-11T09:41:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T09:41:12","slug":"kalutara-npp-also-places-deposits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/kalutara-npp-also-places-deposits\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalutara NPP also places deposits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deposits for those contesting the local Government election 2023 from National People\u2019s Power (NPP) were placed at Kalutara District Secretariat today (11th).<br \/>\nThe team led by former Kalutara District MP and Central Committee Member of the JVP Comrade Dr Nalinda Jayatissa placed the deposits with relevant returning officers.<br \/>\nEarlier, a directive was issued by the Secretary to the Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs, Neil Bandara Hapuhinna had instructed District Secretaries to stop accepting deposits from parties expecting to contest at the upcoming Local Government election. However, the cabinet or the officials acting on their behalf did not know that the Returning Officers accept deposits and nomination papers.<br \/>\nLater. The Election Commission issued a directive contradicting the directive from the cabinet, stating that it is the duty of the Returning officers to accept deposits, thus nullifying another attempt taken by the government to postpone the election.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/deposits2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/deposits2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/deposits2-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/deposits2-600x298.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deposits for those contesting the local Government election 2023 from National People\u2019s Power (NPP) were placed at Kalutara District Secretariat today (11th). The team led by former Kalutara District MP and Central Committee Member of the JVP Comrade Dr Nalinda Jayatissa placed the deposits with relevant returning officers. Earlier, a directive was issued by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8082,"comment_status":"closed","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":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry","9":"gs-1","10":"gs-odd","11":"gs-even","12":"gs-featured-content-entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8084,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions\/8084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}