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Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security, and Cooperative Development
Sri Lanka<\/p>\n
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Wasantha Samarasinghe is a Sri Lankan politician and trade union leader who currently serves as the Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security, and Cooperative Development. As a senior member of the National People\u2019s Power (NPP) party from Anuradhapura District, he is recognized for his dedication to labor rights and anti-corruption advocacy. He holds a degree in Business Management Accounting from the University of Kelaniya and has actively contributed to parliamentary and trade union activities in Sri Lanka<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mr. Wasantha SamarasingheMinister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security, and Cooperative DevelopmentSri LankaWasantha Samarasinghe is a Sri Lankan politician and trade union leader who currently serves as the Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security, and Cooperative Development. As a senior member of the National People\u2019s Power (NPP) party from Anuradhapura District, he is recognized for his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1904","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1904\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}