{"id":155122,"date":"2015-12-28T18:24:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T12:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=155122"},"modified":"2015-12-28T18:34:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T13:04:16","slug":"kumar-sangakkara-must-resign-from-his-brand-ambassador-post-anti-narcotic-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/kumar-sangakkara-must-resign-from-his-brand-ambassador-post-anti-narcotic-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumar Sangakkara Must Resign From His Brand Ambassador Post: Anti-Narcotic Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kumar+Sangakkara&amp;x=12&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kumar Sangakkara<\/span><\/a> must resign from his\u00a0Brand Ambassador post. He is the brand ambassador of Anti-narcotics programme in Sri Lanka.\u00a0He has no moral right to keep that post anymore after been criticised by the President for distributing alcohol.&#8221; couple of anti-narcotic activists told Colombo Telegraph.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_155125\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Kumar-Sangakkara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155125\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-155125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Kumar-Sangakkara-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"Kumar\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Kumar-Sangakkara-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Kumar-Sangakkara.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-155125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kumar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Criticising Enrique\u2019s \u2018Sex And Love\u2019 show, organised by Sangakkara et al. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sex-and-love-show-cultural-police-sirisenas-family-was-there-but-he-attacks-organisers\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">President Maithripala Sirisena said<\/span><\/a>;\u00a0\u201cThe musical show lasted only for an hour. Prices of its tickets ranged from Rs. 5000 to 50,000. They were served Beer, Arrack, Brandy and Gin. This is the power of liquor. This is how they are trying to protect our culture, Some people may criticise me talking about these issues. But I am a Sinhala-Buddhist. It\u2019s my duty to talk about these matters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The President also said the organisers of such indecent events should be punished for bringing artistes, who destroy Sri Lanka\u2019s proud culture. He said the organisers should be \u201cwhipped with toxic stingray tails\u201d- a brutal medieval punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Ace Sri Lankan Cricketer Kumar Sangakkara was appointed as <a href=\"http:\/\/newsfirst.lk\/english\/2015\/08\/veteran-batsman-kumar-sangakkara-appointed-nddcb-brand-ambassador\/107559\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the Brand Ambassador<\/span><\/a> of the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board\u00a0by President Maithripala Sirisena at President\u2019s official residence\u00a0on August 19.<\/p>\n<p>After been appointed, Kumar Sangakkara stated that he is thankful for the invitation to carry out this initiative at a time where lives of youth have been destroyed and families have been separated.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to note that they themselves should stop the use of drugs to bring up a generation of youth who are physically and mentally healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to contact Sangakkara were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":155127,"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-155122","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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