{"id":1292,"date":"2026-05-15T13:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:20:13","slug":"provincial-council-elections-will-definitely-be-held-this-year-minister-krishantha-abeysena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/15\/provincial-council-elections-will-definitely-be-held-this-year-minister-krishantha-abeysena\/","title":{"rendered":"Provincial Council Elections Will Definitely Be Held This Year \u2013 Minister Krishantha Abeysena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Krishantha Abeysena, Sri Lanka\u2019s Minister of Science and Technology, stated that the Provincial Council elections will definitely be held within this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister made these remarks while addressing the media in Kandy today (15).<\/p>\n<p>However, he noted that it is not yet possible to confirm the exact period during this year when the elections will be conducted.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting further on the matter, Minister Krishantha Abeysena said that the Provincial Council elections will certainly take place and that the government has not caused any delay regarding the process.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that there is no need for the public to be concerned, as the government remains committed to conducting and completing the Provincial Council elections within this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krishantha Abeysena, Sri Lanka\u2019s Minister of Science and Technology, stated that the Provincial Council elections will definitely be held within this year. The Minister made these remarks while addressing the media in Kandy today (15). However, he noted that it is not yet possible to confirm the exact period during this year when the elections &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}