{"id":150460,"date":"2015-09-08T20:41:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=150460"},"modified":"2015-09-15T12:47:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T07:17:37","slug":"mtv-newsfirst-removes-presidents-daughter-chathus-boasting-video-from-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mtv-newsfirst-removes-presidents-daughter-chathus-boasting-video-from-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"MTV Newsfirst Removes President&#8217;s Daughter Chathu&#8217;s &#8220;Boasting Video&#8221; From Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharaja Television Network&#8217;s social media site &#8216;Newsfirst.lk Facebook page today removed their published video clip which aired President Maithripala Sirisena&#8217;s daughter <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Chathurika+Sirisena&amp;x=10&amp;y=0\">Chathurika Sirisena<\/a><\/span> chairing a meeting at the Pollonnaruwa District Government Agent&#8217;s Office which was held yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Maithripala-Chathurika-Sirisena-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-150467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Maithripala-Chathurika-Sirisena-.jpg\" alt=\"Maithripala - Chathurika Sirisena\" width=\"639\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Maithripala-Chathurika-Sirisena-.jpg 605w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Maithripala-Chathurika-Sirisena--300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a>Colombo Telegraph <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/maithris-daughter-chathu-kicks-own-goal-with-daddys-powers\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">launched an investigation<\/span><\/a> and questioned the President&#8217;s Media Unit regarding Chathurika Sirisena&#8217;s official stance. We asked the Head of President&#8217;s media to tell us on what basis\/capacity does she go around the country accompanied with state officials. Shortly there after we noticed that the Newsfirst.lk Facebook page posting on Chathurika&#8217;s meeting has been removed. A top MTV official speaking to Colombo Telegraph on the condition of anonymity said that they had to remove the said video from the official Facebook page due to the viewers&#8217; comments but they haven&#8217;t removed it from YouTube.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/874eRu7KpGA\" width=\"634\" height=\"357\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The President&#8217;s office is yet to answer queries that were put forward by Colombo Telegraph<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The meeting\u00a0in question was regarding anti-narcotic awareness and\u00a0was attended by the North Central Province Chief Minister Peshala Jayaratne, all Divisional Secretaries and a plethora of other government officials who patiently listened to the President Sirisena&#8217;s daughter Chathurika talk about her father&#8217;s political ascendancy from his humble beginnings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/maithris-daughter-chathu-kicks-own-goal-with-daddys-powers\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">days ago Chathurika had\u00a0visited<\/span><\/a> Mahawelitenna, Sinhapura, Dimbulana, Perakumyaya and Kudapokuna during a different \u2018fact finding mission\u2019 and\u00a0stated to the media that she had not come \u2018just to show face with an entourage\u2019, but had come instead to share her father\u2019s dream in helping to solve the problems of the people. She added that this is why she was accompanied by state officials. Two days ago\u00a0when Colombo Telegraph contacted the President\u2019s Deputy Director Media Sunil Jayasekara to clarify if Chathurika has been given a portfolio in her daddy\u2019s government, said that as far as he knows she holds no governmental position.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3HNb2awMT8U\" width=\"634\" height=\"357\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rrPvqIjLn8s\" width=\"634\" height=\"357\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":150467,"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-150460","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MTV Newsfirst Removes President&#039;s Daughter Chathu&#039;s &quot;Boasting Video&quot; 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