{"id":190117,"date":"2018-04-27T15:51:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T10:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=190117"},"modified":"2018-04-29T01:07:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T19:37:30","slug":"president-who-shot-down-right-of-women-to-purchase-alcohol-is-ok-with-daughter-getting-liquor-selling-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/president-who-shot-down-right-of-women-to-purchase-alcohol-is-ok-with-daughter-getting-liquor-selling-license\/","title":{"rendered":"President Who Shot Down Right Of Women To Purchase Alcohol Is Ok With Daughter Getting Liquor-Selling License"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Chathurika+Sirisena\">Chathurika Sirisena<\/a>, daughter of President Maithripala Sirisena, has obtained a &#8216;liquor license&#8217; for a restaurant she owns in Polonnaruwa, the &#8216;<em>Anidda<\/em>&#8216; has reported.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_150317\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Chathurika1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150317\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-150317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Chathurika1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Chathurika1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Chathurika1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-150317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chathurika<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8216;<em>Anidda<\/em>,&#8217; a newspaper\u00a0launched today, has highlighted the issuance of a liquor license to Sirisena&#8217;s daughter but has not revealed the names of all 38 persons who have been given such licenses by the Excise Department in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This revelation comes in the wake of President Sirisena shooting down legislation that sought to overturn an age-old law prohibiting women from purchasing alcohol from taverns or working in restaurants selling liquor.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Anidda-Chathurika-Sirisena.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-190119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Anidda-Chathurika-Sirisena-1024x756.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"899\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Anidda-Chathurika-Sirisena-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Anidda-Chathurika-Sirisena-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Anidda-Chathurika-Sirisena-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Anidda-Chathurika-Sirisena-1200x885.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Anidda-Chathurika-Sirisena.jpg 1251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 899px) 100vw, 899px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":150467,"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-190117","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 - 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