{"id":122688,"date":"2022-02-10T17:42:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T00:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122688"},"modified":"2022-02-10T17:42:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T00:42:49","slug":"use-of-filth-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/02\/10\/use-of-filth-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of Filth in Parliament."},"content":{"rendered":"

Garvin Karunaratne<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

I refer to Jamila Husain’s article<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising number of Government (SLPP) MPs resort to using filth in parliament<\/strong><\/a>
in your esteemed columns.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was beside Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake at a meeting, possibly at Tolangamuwa Central. The Prime Minister was presiding and I think it was a meeting organized by the rural development society. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The speaker from the rural development society was speaking and used the word: aru. The PrimeMinister turned to me  “What is the meaning of Aru. I replied that it was a derogatory manner of referring to a person. The Prime Minister kept on listening, when the speaker used the word MU. “GA what does that word Mu mean?. “It is also a derogatory manner of referring to a person.” I replied. “Stop him speaking at once “ordered the Prime Minister. He was angry.  I got up, snatched the microphone away from the speaker and pushed him  out of the stage.  I was about to get back to my seat beside the Prime Minister when he ordered me. “Apologise to the people for the use of sauch foul language at this meeting” .<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I grabbed the microphone and said  that the Prime Minister ordered me to apologise for  the use of that foul language at this public meeting.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What of today?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garvin Karunaratne<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Garvin Karunaratne I refer to Jamila Husain’s article Rising number of Government (SLPP) MPs resort to using filth in parliamentin your esteemed columns. I was beside Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake at a meeting, possibly at Tolangamuwa Central. The Prime Minister was presiding and I think it was a meeting organized by the rural development society.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-garvin-karunaratne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122688","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=122688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}