{"id":121002,"date":"2014-03-04T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=121002"},"modified":"2014-03-12T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T12:19:09","slug":"namal-rajapaksa-tweets-meme-of-himself-making-offensive-remarks-about-anarkali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/namal-rajapaksa-tweets-meme-of-himself-making-offensive-remarks-about-anarkali\/","title":{"rendered":"Namal Rajapaksa Tweets Meme Of Himself Making Offensive Remarks About Anarkali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Namal+Rajapaksa&amp;x=2&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Namal Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a>, widely regarded as the crown prince of the ruling Rajapaksa dynasty, who maintains a relatively modest presence on the social media website Twitter, has just tweeted a meme of himself that is blatantly sexist and offensive to women.<\/p>\n<p>The picture tweeted by the young parliamentarian is an image of himself and another UPFA member making bald remarks about Southern Provincial Council candidate for the ruling party and model <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Anarkali+Akarsha&amp;x=8&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Anarkali Akarsha<\/span><\/a>&#8216;s body. &#8220;Look what I found :)&#8221; Namal Rajapaksa tweeted with the photograph.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Namal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-121004\" alt=\"Namal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Namal.jpg\" width=\"548\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Namal.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Namal-278x300.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Look at what I found <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/EdHKY5TXZB\">pic.twitter.com\/EdHKY5TXZB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Namal Rajapaksa (@RajapaksaNamal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RajapaksaNamal\/statuses\/440807832435163136\">March 4, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":121005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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