{"id":89020,"date":"2019-05-18T15:54:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T22:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=89020"},"modified":"2019-05-18T15:54:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T22:54:17","slug":"gentleman-and-a-politician-imtiaz-bakeer-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/18\/gentleman-and-a-politician-imtiaz-bakeer-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentleman and a politician Imtiaz Bakeer Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath OBEYSEKERA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Today I listened to TV program where Intiaz B M ,Kabir Hashim and  another Muslim person explaining to all of us about the fact that all the  Muslims are not terrible and the importance of living together as Sri  Lankan\u2019s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When such a statement is made By a person like \u00a0Imtiaz ,it looks  very convincing and carries truth and both Muslims and Sinhalese should listen <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was a scholar studied in Ananda which is a premium Buddhist  College .He was mingling with Sinhala Buddhists and studied in few classes below  my grade <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I rememeber \u00a0him leading the college Sinhala debate team.He knew  Buddhist culture more than a Sinhalese. <br> When I was chairman of a corporation he was my deputy minister.He  used to ask me favours only to get some work for his electorate Beruwala. He used to send me poor youngsters for employee Ntb with a letter  and follwed by a very polite telephone call . <br> I always obliged whenever possible. <br> Important thing is that all the youngsters sent by him were  Sinhalese\u00a0 <br> He is a gentleman and a honest politician side-lined by his own  party which he never left . Being the son of a speaker ,he is an example to all other Muslim  governors, \u00a0party speakers of a particular political party. <br> My opinion is that he is suitable to lead the whole country one  day. <br> These \u00a0are the type of politicains people should believe and  listen. <br> I am living \u00a0my last few years of this life but Intiaz B M should  long live to see that this country gets back to its Serendipity and foster  national conciliation\u00a0 <br> Inshah Allah and Budu Saranai <br> Dr Sarath OBEYSEKERA\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath OBEYSEKERA Today I listened to TV program where Intiaz B M ,Kabir Hashim and another Muslim person explaining to all of us about the fact that all the Muslims are not terrible and the importance of living together as Sri Lankan\u2019s. When such a statement is made By a person like \u00a0Imtiaz ,it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89020","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=89020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}