{"id":150981,"date":"2015-09-18T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T18:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=150981"},"modified":"2015-09-18T00:32:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T19:02:29","slug":"neither-namal-nor-his-father-had-any-right-to-comment-on-judiciary-mangala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/neither-namal-nor-his-father-had-any-right-to-comment-on-judiciary-mangala\/","title":{"rendered":"Neither Namal Nor His Father Had Any Right To Comment On Judiciary: Mangala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a dig <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-courts-can-conduct-credible-investigations-namal-rajapaksa\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">at comments made by Namal Rajapaksa MP<\/span><\/a> in describing the country&#8217;s judicial system Foreign Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mangala+Samaraweera&amp;x=6&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mangala Samaraweera<\/span><\/a> said \u201cwe all know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/namal-rajapaksa-to-get-a-dodgy-phd-in-gaddafi-sons-way\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">how Namal baby passed the law exam<\/span><\/a> and his father subjugated and ruined the judicial system in the country\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37181\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mangala-s-colombotelegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37181\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-37181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mangala-s-colombotelegraph-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mangala Samaraweera -Minister of External Affairs \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mangala-s-colombotelegraph-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mangala-s-colombotelegraph-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mangala Samaraweera -Minister of External Affairs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mangala Samaraweera addressing both local and\u00a0international journalists today\u00a0said neither Namal nor his father had any right to comment on the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Minister went on to say that Rajapksa senior had appointed judges and other senior officers in the Judicial system, not depending on competency and integrity but considering only loyalty to him and his family.<\/p>\n<p>He said that even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shirani+Bandaranayake&amp;x=11&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a former chief justice had been fired<\/span><\/a> without any consideration to f airplay and justice and had appointed one of his lackey&#8217;s in her place.<\/p>\n<p>Samaraweera said that it was clear by his comments and conduct that Namal baby too was following in his father&#8217;s footsteps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":37181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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