{"id":69318,"date":"2017-08-31T13:58:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T20:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=69318"},"modified":"2017-08-31T13:58:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T20:58:44","slug":"mehema-epa-chandrika-mehema-epa-mr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/31\/mehema-epa-chandrika-mehema-epa-mr\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mehema Epa\u2019 Chandrika, \u2018Mehema Epa\u2019: MR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said \u2018hatred and jealousy\u2019 are two qualities his predecessor Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga shouldn\u2019t possess.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a journalist following an event held at the BMICH, Mr. Rajapaksa said hatred was visible through former President Kumaratunga as she was aging.<\/p>\n<p>He said if there was an issue with his education, which was criticized by Ms. Kumaratunga, it should be raised by the Supreme Court judges as he was sworn-in as a lawyer in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>She is behaving like this, with jealousy and hatred as she ages. Don\u2019t stoop to this level (Mehema epa Chandrika, Mehema epa). That\u2019s all I have to say,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the questions and answers are as follows,<\/p>\n<p>Q: Is Ms. Kumaratunga educated?<\/p>\n<p>A: I\u2019m not going to comment on that. You better ask her.<\/p>\n<p>Q: But Minister S.B. Dissanayake has commented on that.<\/p>\n<p>A: Exactly, you should ask about that from SB.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, former president Kumaratunga said none of the Rajapaksas possesed an education which exceeded grade 8 level.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said \u2018hatred and jealousy\u2019 are two qualities his predecessor Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga shouldn\u2019t possess. Responding to a journalist following an event held at the BMICH, Mr. Rajapaksa said hatred was visible through former President Kumaratunga as she was aging. He said if there was an issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69318","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=69318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}