{"id":152446,"date":"2015-10-20T02:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T20:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=152446"},"modified":"2015-10-20T02:49:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T21:19:49","slug":"presidents-daughter-addresses-old-royalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/presidents-daughter-addresses-old-royalists\/","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Daughter Addresses Old Royalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madam <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Chathurika+Sirisena&amp;x=11&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chathurika Sirisena<\/span><\/a>, daughter of President Maithripala Sirisena, having recently returned to the public sphere with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/chathurika-commences-kite-flying-by-flying-kites\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a kite-flying exercise<\/span><\/a>, addressed a gathering of past students of Royal College, Polonnaruwa on the 18th of October 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Chaturika.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-152447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Chaturika.jpg\" alt=\"Chaturika\" width=\"262\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a>This appearance follows a cautious participation in a kite-flying event on\u00a011th of October 2015. Subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/chathurika-commences-kite-flying-by-flying-kites\/\">on the following day<\/a> President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s daughter Chathu was invited by Ranavali Balika Vidyalaya in Gampaha, as the chief guest where the girl\u2019s school celebrated World Teachers and World Children\u2019s day.<\/p>\n<p>Sirisena recently caused embarrassment to her presidential father by arrogating some of his powers on herself, covering herself with officialdom by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/maithris-daughter-chathu-kicks-own-goal-with-daddys-powers\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">getting government servants to accompany her<\/span><\/a> on a &#8216;fact-finding mission&#8217; in remote parts of the country. So far there has been complete silence from the President on the arrogant behavior of his daughter. In fact the President went on to include his son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Daham+Sirisena&amp;x=7&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Daham Sirisena<\/span><\/a> in the official Sri Lankan delegation to the UN General Assembly in New York.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":152447,"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-152446","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>President&#039;s Daughter Addresses Old Royalists - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/presidents-daughter-addresses-old-royalists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President&#039;s Daughter Addresses Old Royalists - 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