{"id":891,"date":"2025-01-21T21:09:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thulirvu.com\/?p=891"},"modified":"2025-01-21T21:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:40:57","slug":"govt-will-provide-vehicles-to-all-225-parliamentarians-minister-vijitha-herath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"Govt will provide vehicles to all 225 MPs &#8211; Minister Vijitha Herath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government will provide vehicles to all 225 parliamentarians for their use in the future, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism Minister Vijitha Herath said.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a television programme last night, he explained that MPs will no longer be granted permits to import vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, whether the vehicle is used or brand new, every parliamentarian must receive vehicles of equal condition and model. If not, questions will arise afterward,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a strict policy of providing either used or brand-new vehicles to MPs for the five-year government term, solely for their use,&#8221; the Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are two options for using the vehicles provided to MPs. One is to hand over the vehicles after the government term ends. The other is to pay the vehicle&#8217;s price to the government, based on depreciation, and keep the vehicle after the term,&#8221; Minister Vijitha Herath said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government will provide vehicles to all 225 parliamentarians for their use in the future, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism Minister Vijitha Herath said. Addressing a television programme last night, he explained that MPs will no longer be granted permits to import vehicles. &#8220;However, whether the vehicle is used or brand new, every parliamentarian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"category-breaking"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}