{"id":155158,"date":"2015-12-29T19:22:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T13:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=155158"},"modified":"2016-01-11T17:41:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T12:11:39","slug":"ada-derana-calls-president-maithripaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ada-derana-calls-president-maithripaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Ada Derana Calls President &#8220;Maithripaka&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ada Derana today called President Sirisena &#8216;Maithripaka&#8217; in their story published by their website at 4:34 pm titled &#8220;This is not an attack against me, but against our culture&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Untitled-Ada-Derana-MS-Paka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-155157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Untitled-Ada-Derana-MS-Paka.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled Ada Derana MS Paka\" width=\"639\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Untitled-Ada-Derana-MS-Paka.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Untitled-Ada-Derana-MS-Paka-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a>Earlier even Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe and MP Vasudeva Nanayakkara also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nimalka-condemns-vasus-pakaya-remarks\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">locked horns in parliamen<\/span><\/a>t as well when Vasu went overboard with anger calling Ranil a `pakaya`.<\/p>\n<p>Later Ranil hit back at Nanayakkara calling him a \u2018dried pumpkin\u2019 who had lost the prime of his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a dried pumpkin. This is how defeated people behave,\u201d the Prime Minister said when referring to Nanayakkara\u2019s use of language and his theatrics in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>However the direct translation of the word &#8216;pakaya&#8217; means &#8216;penis&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ada Derana&#8217;s Facebook indicator attached to the news time, the website says that 117,600 people like this story at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>It is still uncertain if the prime news website Ada Derana had made a &#8216;typo&#8217; or if this was done intentionally as at the time of writing nearly three hours has lapsed since this story was uploaded.<\/p>\n<p>Ada Derana is owned by businessman Dilith Jayaweera and Minister Sarath Amunugama&#8217;s daughter Varuni.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ada-Dearana-Maithripala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-155164\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ada-Dearana-Maithripala.jpg\" alt=\"Ada Dearana Maithripala\" width=\"639\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ada-Dearana-Maithripala.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ada-Dearana-Maithripala-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sQkK0rcezIs\" width=\"639\" height=\"357\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":152076,"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-155158","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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