{"id":184032,"date":"2017-11-11T19:56:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T14:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=184032"},"modified":"2017-11-13T21:47:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T16:17:45","slug":"audio-deputy-minister-gankanda-at-it-again-abuses-a-woman-in-raw-filth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/audio-deputy-minister-gankanda-at-it-again-abuses-a-woman-in-raw-filth\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio: Deputy Minister Gankanda At It Again &#8211; Abuses A Woman In Raw Filth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notorious Deputy Minister for Disaster Management <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Dunesh+Gankanda\">Dunesh Gankanda&#8217;<\/a>s violent behaviour continued, as this time he went on to verbally abuse a woman in absolute raw filth.<\/p>\n<p>In an audio recorded clip going viral on social media, the Deputy Minister Gankanda is heard verbally abusing a lady in a language totally unbecoming of a law maker.<\/p>\n<p>Play the audio below to listen:<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-audio-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-current-item\"><\/div>\n\t\t<audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"1038\"\n\t\t\t><\/audio>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a href='https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Dunesh-.m4a'>Dunesh<\/a><\/li>\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/noscript>\n\t<script type=\"application\/json\" class=\"wp-playlist-script\">{\"type\":\"audio\",\"tracklist\":true,\"tracknumbers\":true,\"images\":true,\"artists\":true,\"tracks\":[{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.colombotelegraph.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/11\\\/Dunesh-.m4a\",\"type\":\"audio\\\/mpeg\",\"title\":\"Dunesh\",\"caption\":\"\",\"description\":\"\\\"Dunesh\\\".\",\"meta\":{\"length_formatted\":\"2:09\"},\"image\":{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.colombotelegraph.com\\\/wp-includes\\\/images\\\/media\\\/audio.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64},\"thumb\":{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.colombotelegraph.com\\\/wp-includes\\\/images\\\/media\\\/audio.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\t\n<p>The lady caller asks him &#8220;Hi Dunesh Aiya (big brother) good morning, you sent me filthy messages no? &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Minister Gankanda then goes on to abuse the woman by saying &#8220;Chula, I will sort out issues with my woman. Don&#8217;t do fucking things you cunt. You cunt, you sort out your issues and I will sort out issues with my woman. Why the fuck are you trying to creep under my garment (mage redda asse)? Just because you have a fucking problem with your ass. You sort out your issues with Damith&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_143855\" style=\"width: 155px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dunesh-G1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143855\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dunesh-G1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-143855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gankanda<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The woman named Chula in the audio then says &#8220;Aiya, I never spoke to you in filthy words, we are nice people, lets try to talk about this matter in a nice way. ok? &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Minister Gankanda then goes on to say very sarcastically &#8220;yes, yes, we are all nice people&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The woman then says &#8220;I will make a complain about the way your talking, that&#8217;s not very nice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Disregarding the woman Chula&#8217;s threat in making a complaint of his abuse, the Deputy Minister Gankanda goes on to berate her further saying &#8220;Fuck you bitch, who the fuck are you to call me and explain to me about your fucking life?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is extremely sad that the UNP has not taken any action against their own law maker&#8217;s violent behaviour. This is not the first time the Deputy Minister Gankanda has displayed his behaviour in this manner. It is a pity that the Deputy Minister for Disaster Management is a disaster himself, I wonder what women in his constituency who voted for him have to say about his behaviour,&#8221; a social media commentator went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Minister Gankanda&#8217;s history of violence was first exposed when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/unp-has-gone-to-the-dogs-nose-biter-mp-is-a-racist-too\/\">racially abused his step son, calling him a &#8220;Demala Pakaya&#8221;<\/a>, in translation meaning &#8220;Tamil Dick&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A subsequent complaint was filed at the Police Children and Women&#8217;s Bureau\u00a0regarding the verbal and racial abuse made against his under aged step son and step daughter.<\/p>\n<p>His dangerous and violent behaviour especially when under the influence of alcohol, was earlier exposed where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/unp-has-gone-to-the-dogs-nose-biter-mp-is-a-racist-too\/\">he is recorded to have assaulted his aunt, one member of the Ministerial Security Division, one of his own body guards and one female maid servant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Next in May 2012, he went into hiding and subsequently surrendered to the Colpetty Police, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nose-biter-mp-surrenders\/\">after he bit the nose of a Tamil businessman named Diwakran<\/a> at the famous Museum night club at Galle Face Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Further on just after he became the Deputy Minister of Urban Development, Water Supply and Drainage Board, April 30th 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nose-biter-deputy-minister-gankanda-in-alcohol-driven-rampage-again\/\">he went on to mar his wife Kushani&#8217;s birthday celebrations at the Waters Edge, when he assaulted two invited guests Sumedha Gamlath and his wife<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately thereafter he went on to also assault the birthday girl Kushani and his step daughter bringing the party celebrations to an abrupt end.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Parliamentary monitoring website Manthri.lk has recorded the Deputy Minister to have participated in just 12 parliamentary sessions, where he has also gone on to participate in only two topics. His poor performance in parliament is recorded by his lowly ranked position of 186.<strong><em>(By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Manisha+Unantenne\">Manisha Unantenne<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":184045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","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>Audio: Deputy Minister Gankanda At It Again - Abuses A Woman In Raw Filth - 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\/audio-deputy-minister-gankanda-at-it-again-abuses-a-woman-in-raw-filth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Audio: Deputy Minister Gankanda At It Again - 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