{"id":178857,"date":"2017-06-18T10:12:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T04:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=178857"},"modified":"2017-06-19T21:37:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T16:07:46","slug":"daily-mirror-website-removes-news-story-champika-rathana-thera-responsible-for-gnanasara-theras-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/daily-mirror-website-removes-news-story-champika-rathana-thera-responsible-for-gnanasara-theras-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Mirror Website Removes News Story &#8216;Champika, Rathana Thera Responsible For Gnanasara Thera\u2019s Actions&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Mirror has\u00a0been forced to remove news reports form its website. The news story \u2018Champika, Rathana Thera responsible for Gnanasara Thera\u2019s actions\u2019 is removed from their website without giving any clarification.\u00a0According to the sources within the Daily Mirror, Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Champika+Ranawaka\">Patali Champika Ranawaka<\/a> has yesterday forced them to remove the story from its website.<\/p>\n<p>We publish below the news story in full;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46494\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/champika-ranawaka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46494\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/champika-ranawaka.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Champika Ranawaka<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Champika, Rathana Thera responsible for Gnanasara Thera\u2019s actions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) said today Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka and MP Athureliya Rathana Thera should take responsibility for its General Secretary Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera intervening in various matters in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGnanasara Thera would have turned even more violent had he accepted the contracts given by Minister Ranawaka and Rathana Thera,\u201d BBS CEO Dilanthe Vithanage told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>He said they had prompted Gnanasara Thera to incite violence to achieve their political goals.\u201cNo one talks about the real issues which he raises in public,\u201d Mr. Vithanage said.<\/p>\n<p>Sinhala Ravaya General Secretary Magalkande Sudaththa Thera said the Government was trying to label Gnanasara Thera as another Prabhakaran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe joint opposition paints the BBS as a front of the Government while the Government the BBS as a JO front. The Government also blamed the BBS saying the BBS was created by former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa to pave the way for him to contest the 2020 presidential election. On the other hand the JO said the BBS was created to support Minister Champika Ranawaka to do the same,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":46494,"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-178857","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>Daily Mirror Website Removes News Story &#039;Champika, Rathana Thera Responsible For Gnanasara Thera\u2019s Actions&#039; - 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\/daily-mirror-website-removes-news-story-champika-rathana-thera-responsible-for-gnanasara-theras-actions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Daily Mirror Website Removes News Story &#039;Champika, Rathana Thera Responsible For Gnanasara Thera\u2019s Actions&#039; - 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