{"id":510167,"date":"2022-07-29T11:08:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T05:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=510167"},"modified":"2022-07-29T13:15:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T07:45:31","slug":"govt-will-focus-on-fixing-economy-ending-fuel-shortage-says-ranil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-will-focus-on-fixing-economy-ending-fuel-shortage-says-ranil\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt will focus on fixing economy, ending fuel shortage, says Ranil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said his government&#8217;s main priorities are to fix the country&#8217;s ailing economy and end the severe fuel shortage that has exacerbated after the last shipment under the Indian credit line arrived here in June.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a gathering at his party headquarters on Wednesday, the newly-elected president said his government was not against peaceful protest and would allow them all the time if the protesters did not break the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI became the president at a most difficult time for the country. We have to set the economy right,\u201d he said. Wickremesinghe said his government&#8217;s main task was to first reduce the length of fuel queues and then eliminate them completely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said his government&#8217;s main priorities are to fix the country&#8217;s ailing economy and end the severe fuel shortage that has exacerbated after the last shipment under the Indian credit line arrived here in June. Addressing a gathering at his party headquarters on Wednesday, the newly-elected president said his government was not against peaceful protest and would allow them all the time if the protesters did not break the law. \u201cI became the president at a most difficult time for the country. We have to set the economy right,\u201d he said. Wickremesinghe said his government&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}