{"id":65017,"date":"2017-04-07T15:15:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T22:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=65017"},"modified":"2017-04-07T17:24:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T00:24:20","slug":"mahanayake-thero-has-nothing-else-to-do-other-than-meeting-overgrwon-fat-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/04\/07\/mahanayake-thero-has-nothing-else-to-do-other-than-meeting-overgrwon-fat-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"MAHANAYAKE THERO HAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO OTHER THAN  \u00a0MEETING OVERGRWON FAT POLITICIANS \u2026\u2026\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>TV crews and journalists are always seen near Kandy Mahnayake Thero\u2019s residence\/ temple<\/p>\n<p>We see many politicians ( some overgrown) sitting in front of the prelate and trying to get blessings from \u00a0Mahnayake Thero .One good thing is that Mahanayke is always polite ,accommodating and kind in giving advises to all the politicians .Lately this action has become a fashion .<\/p>\n<p>I heard one powerful minister was asked to consider opinions from the Public \u00a0regarding handing over of a port to Chinese and the Minister replied that they will seek approval from Parliament before implementing. Of course parliament with\u00a0\u00a0 a majority for the ruling party can do anything as they wish.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mahanayake01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mahanayake01.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mahanayake01-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mahanayake02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mahanayake02.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mahanayake02-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mahanayake03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mahanayake03.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mahanayake03-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/>In one occasion Mahanayake Thero told Finance Minister that his work was appreciated by foreign organizations and an award was also given, but Sri Lankans have failed to appreciate his work ! ( I am not sure about the \u00a0response from the minister \u2013but rejection of certain budget proposals is clear indication of the popularity of the finance minister!).<\/p>\n<p>Another minister went to see the prelate to get advice about SAITM and Thero said that government should listen to doctors also !<\/p>\n<p>Newspapers fill these shows with nice photos and TV crew also create news .<\/p>\n<p>Ataprirkara  traders\u00a0 in Kandy are also making big money !<\/p>\n<p>I do not think that these shows does not make any impressions among the public when they watch this in TV or read the newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera TV crews and journalists are always seen near Kandy Mahnayake Thero\u2019s residence\/ temple We see many politicians ( some overgrown) sitting in front of the prelate and trying to get blessings from \u00a0Mahnayake Thero .One good thing is that Mahanayke is always polite ,accommodating and kind in giving advises to all the [&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-65017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65017","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=65017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}