{"id":63587,"date":"2012-12-07T17:58:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T17:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=63587"},"modified":"2012-12-07T18:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T18:48:38","slug":"i-am-mesmerised-by-your-beauty-what-minister-told-former-miss-sri-lanka-when-she-asked-him-a-question-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/i-am-mesmerised-by-your-beauty-what-minister-told-former-miss-sri-lanka-when-she-asked-him-a-question-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I Am Mesmerised By Your Beauty&#8217;: What Minister Told Former Miss Sri Lanka When She Asked Him A Question In Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>&#8220;A Sri Lankan minister has been accused of sexism after he told a former beauty queen MP he was so mesmerised by her looks he could not answer her questions in parliament.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Rosy+Senanayake&amp;x=9&amp;y=6\">Rosy Senanayake<\/a><\/span>, a former Miss Sri Lanka and Mrs World who has also served as her country&#8217;s High Commissioner in Malaysia, had asked minister <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kumara+Welgama&amp;x=4&amp;y=9\">Kumara Welgama<\/a><\/span> about the state of the country&#8217;s Transport Board.\u00a0But instead of answering her question, he told her he was &#8216;choked&#8217; by her beauty and would describe his feelings for her outside the chamber.&#8221; Daily Mail reported today.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2244385\/Minister-Sri-Lanka-told-beauty-queen-answer-questions-parliament-mesmerised-beauty.html#ixzz2EOEKvBKd \">Daily Mail UK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Sexist Remarks: Minister Should Not Have Referred To My Looks And Womanhood \u2013 Rosy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sexist-remarks-minister-should-not-have-referred-to-my-looks-and-womanhood-rosy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sexist Remarks: Minister Should Not Have Referred To My Looks And Womanhood \u2013 Rosy<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"We have to have more women in politics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/we-have-to-have-more-women-in-politics\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">We have to have more women in politics<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"The UNP\u2019s Leadership Struggle; Ranil,Sinhala-Buddhist Racism and Rosy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-unps-leadership-struggle-ranilsinhala-buddhist-racism-and-rosy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The UNP\u2019s Leadership Struggle; Ranil,Sinhala-Buddhist Racism and Rosy<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":63588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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