{"id":50543,"date":"2015-12-26T22:14:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T04:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50543"},"modified":"2015-12-26T15:14:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T22:14:03","slug":"nepotism-father-defence-minister-son-in-law-pro-daughter-chief-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/12\/26\/nepotism-father-defence-minister-son-in-law-pro-daughter-chief-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepotism; Father Defence Minister, Son-In-Law PRO, Daughter Chief Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy ColomboTelegraph<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Public anger on social media has skyrocketed towards President Maithripala Sirisena \u2013 Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe led yahapalanaya government as the Head of State\u2019s daughter Chathurika Sirisena is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nepotist-sirisena-at-it-again\/\">scheduled to be the chief guest<\/a> at a Ministry of Defense led Civil Security Departmental function to be held on the 28th of December 2015 at the BMICH.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chathurika1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-155040\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Chathurika1.jpg\" alt=\"Chathurika\" width=\"465\" height=\"644\" \/><\/a>A disgruntled voter of yahapalanaya said that this nepotism phenomenon is getting more sick and ugly by the day. The Minister of Defence is the President Sirisena himself. He then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianmirror.lk\/news\/item\/7075-maithri-appoints-son-in-law-as-defence-ministry-pr-officer\">appoints<\/a> his son-in-law Wewelpanawa Gamage Thilina Suranjith as the\u00a0Public Relations Officer of the Defense Ministry and now brings his daughter to even be the chief guest in such a distinguished Ministry, where far more respected individuals could have been bestowed the honor instead\u201d he posted on her Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>It is worthy to note that President Sirisena\u2019s daughter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Chathurika+Sirisena&amp;x=10&amp;y=2\">Chathurika Sirisena<\/a> who was an absolute non-entity till her father\u2019s appointment in January 2015, started off as being the chief guest at lesser prominent functions such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/chathurika-commences-kite-flying-by-flying-kites\/\">National Kite Festival<\/a>, at school functions at Rathnavali Grls School Gampaha and Royal College Pollannaruwa and gradually moving on to be the chief guest at the recently held annual concert of the Naval Pre-schools of SLNS Gamunu, SLNS Tissa and SLNS Dakshina at the Navy Headquarters in Colombo on 06th December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Full Report;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nepotism-father-defence-minister-son-in-law-pro-daughter-chief-guest\/\">https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nepotism-father-defence-minister-son-in-law-pro-daughter-chief-guest\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy ColomboTelegraph Public anger on social media has skyrocketed towards President Maithripala Sirisena \u2013 Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe led yahapalanaya government as the Head of State\u2019s daughter Chathurika Sirisena isscheduled to be the chief guest at a Ministry of Defense led Civil Security Departmental function to be held on the 28th of December 2015 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50543","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=50543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}