{"id":2319,"date":"2026-06-09T09:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:01:28","slug":"rajapaksas-labelled-economic-killers-by-supreme-court-are-now-talking-about-the-economy-bimal-rathnayake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/06\/09\/rajapaksas-labelled-economic-killers-by-supreme-court-are-now-talking-about-the-economy-bimal-rathnayake\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajapaksas, Labelled \u201cEconomic Killers\u201d by Supreme Court, Are Now Talking About the Economy \u2013 Bimal Rathnayake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the House and Minister Bimal Rathnayake stated in Parliament today (9) that the Rajapaksa family, whom the Supreme Court unanimously held responsible for the country&#8217;s economic crisis, are now attempting to speak about economic matters.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing Parliament, Rathnayake said that those who led the country into bankruptcy and individuals accused of corruption have now united under a common platform.<\/p>\n<p>He further asserted that the government would not yield to what he described as threats or pressure from such groups.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister emphasized that appropriate legal action would be taken against individuals involved in corruption and added that neither corrupt figures nor their opinions would be given importance by the government.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks were made during a parliamentary session amid ongoing political debate over accountability for Sri Lanka\u2019s economic collapse and the country&#8217;s recovery efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the House and Minister Bimal Rathnayake stated in Parliament today (9) that the Rajapaksa family, whom the Supreme Court unanimously held responsible for the country&#8217;s economic crisis, are now attempting to speak about economic matters. Addressing Parliament, Rathnayake said that those who led the country into bankruptcy and individuals accused of corruption have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2319","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\/2319","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=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}