{"id":356,"date":"2010-05-29T05:56:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T05:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/?p=356"},"modified":"2010-05-29T05:56:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T05:56:56","slug":"felicitation-ceremony-for-the-women-mps-of-the-7th-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/felicitation-ceremony-for-the-women-mps-of-the-7th-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Felicitation ceremony for the women MPs of the 7th Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WMC felicitated the 13 female Members of Parliament elected to the 7th Parliament of Sri Lanka from the 2010 Parliamentary Election. Minister of Child Development &amp; Women&#8217;s Affairs Tissa Karaliyadde was Chief Guest at the event. Those felicitated included Sumedha Jayasena, Nirupama Rajapakse, Sudarshani Fernandopulle, Rosy Senanayake, Malani Fonseka, Kamala Ranatunga, Thalatha Atukorale, Sriyani Wijewickrama, Chandrani Bandara, Anoma Gamage and Upeksha Swarnamali. 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Minister of Child Development &amp; Women&#8217;s Affairs Tissa Karaliyadde was Chief Guest at the event. Those felicitated included Sumedha Jayasena, Nirupama Rajapakse, Sudarshani Fernandopulle, Rosy Senanayake, Malani Fonseka, Kamala Ranatunga, Thalatha Atukorale, Sriyani Wijewickrama, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,129,119,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-and-social-transformation","category-reconciliation-2","category-state-politics-3","category-womens-representation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Felicitation ceremony for the women MPs of the 7th Parliament - Women &amp; Media Collective<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/felicitation-ceremony-for-the-women-mps-of-the-7th-parliament\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"si_LK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Felicitation ceremony for the women MPs of the 7th Parliament - Women &amp; Media Collective\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WMC felicitated the 13 female Members of Parliament elected to the 7th Parliament of Sri Lanka from the 2010 Parliamentary Election. 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