{"id":101769,"date":"2020-04-30T15:44:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T22:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101769"},"modified":"2020-04-30T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T22:44:12","slug":"gotaprobhia-still-scared-of-gotabaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/30\/gotaprobhia-still-scared-of-gotabaya\/","title":{"rendered":"GOTAPROBHIA- STILL SCARED OF GOTABAYA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The general public was not scared of Mahinda Rajapakse.\u00a0 For children, Mahinda was an Appachchi\u201d. If not he was Mahinda Mama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some others, Mahinda was a Thug. Equally for some Mahinda was Shrewd Man\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 If not Mahinda was a Boss. If not for others, Mahinda was a person who delivered the goods\u201d.<strong>\u00a0\u00a0 By and large,\u00a0 Mahinda is still a King for the nation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the general public was not exactly aware of what Gotabaya will do if he is given the powers of Executive Presidency. They were not sure exactly as to what type of person Gotabaya was, as he lived a quiet and frugal life, in Sri Lanka or overseas.\u00a0 Therefore, he was an unknown quantity to a great extent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all remember, how his opponents capitalized the Unknown Factor\u201d to intimidate the general public. So they brought in the Fear\u201d factor,<strong> the Fear for Gota\u00a0 Bhaya.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajitha Senaratne said in Kandy  I am very frightened of Gotabaya if he becomes the President:\u201d.\u00a0 Mangala Samaraweera said, HE IS TERRIFIED OF GOTABAYA\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Sumanthiran said \u201d I am very scared of Gotabaya. If Gotabaya becomes President, we Tamils are finished. Therefore, to defeat Sinhalese, vote for Sajith\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;But\nnow, the President Gotabaya what he has\ndone against Tamils and Muslims?<strong> Did&nbsp; he deliberately ignore the Tamil\nand Muslim corona sufferers allowing them to die?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Did\nPresident Gotabaya give powers to Police to beat and force Rabbit Jumping&nbsp;\non the main street &nbsp;to those who violated social distancing or curfew\nrules?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did\nPresident Gotabaya use Water Bowsers and Tear Gas to disperse protesting\nUniversity Students?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Is\nGota&nbsp; still a Devil? Or is he a Murderer?&nbsp; Or is Gotabaya&nbsp; a\nCompassionate&nbsp; Leader, aspiring to achieve the status of a Bodhisatwa?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE The general public was not scared of Mahinda Rajapakse.\u00a0 For children, Mahinda was an Appachchi\u201d. If not he was Mahinda Mama. For some others, Mahinda was a Thug. Equally for some Mahinda was Shrewd Man\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 If not Mahinda was a Boss. If not for others, Mahinda was a person who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}