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    Basil Rajapaksa (born 27 April 1951) is a Sri Lankan-American politician. He is a former Minister of Finance and Member of Parliament for the national...
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  • 2010 Parliamentary Elections, Chamal Rajapaksa, Basil Rajapaksa and Namal Rajapaksa were elected. Basil Rajapaksa received 425,100 preferential votes from...
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    This included three ministers from the Rajapaksa family: Chamal Rajapaksa, Basil Rajapaksa, and Namal Rajapaksa. The president was to announce the new...
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  • in June 2022, succeeding Basil Rajapaksa from the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, briefly serving President Gotabaya Rajapaksa as his Minister of Investment...
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    Mahinda Rajapaksa (Sinhala: මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ; Tamil: மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ; born Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa; 18 November 1945) is a Sri Lankan politician. He served...
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    2022 Sri Lankan protests (category Gotabaya Rajapaksa)
    2019 that scared off tourists. With brothers Basil Rajapaksa as Finance Minister and Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister, the sense of nepotism and mismanagement...
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    6 July 2021 – Jayantha Ketagoda (SLPFA/NAT) resigned, replaced by Basil Rajapaksa (SLPFA/NAT). 13 September 2021 – Ajith Nivard Cabraal (SLPFA/NAT) resigned...
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  • Lankan politician Basil Rajapaksa, (born 1951), Sri Lankan politician Chamal Rajapaksa (born 1942), Sri Lankan politician D. A. Rajapaksa (1905–1967), Ceylonese...
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    appointed as the new Minister of Finance, replacing Basil Rajapaksa (brother of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa) in the position. Due to the worsening of the financial...
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    Lakshman Namal Rajapaksa (Sinhala: ලක්ශ්මන් නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ, Tamil: நாமல் ராஜபக்ஷ; born 10 April 1986; known as Namal Rajapaksa) is a Sri Lankan lawyer and...
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  • Jayanthi, Mahinda, Chandra, Basil, Gotabhaya, Dudley, Preethi and Gandani. At the defeat in the 1965 general elections, Rajapaksa not only lost his political...
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    three younger brothers: Mahinda Rajapaksa, Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa and two younger sisters, to D. A. Rajapaksa and Dona Dandina Samarasinghe...
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    President of Sri Lanka in 2005. Two of his other brothers, Chamal Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa, are also current Members of Parliament. He obtained his primary...
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  • was appointed SLFP chief organizer of Pathadumbara by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, succeeding his father General Anuruddha Ratwatta. He served as State...
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  • their tenure, the government under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa faced multiple crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic...
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    Crimes Investigation Division. This led to arrest Basil Rajapaksa the younger brother of Mahinda Rajapaksa and his political henchmen who were involved in...
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  • Rohitha Rajapaksa (born 15 June 1989) is a Sri Lankan cricketer and media personality. He is the youngest son of Sri Lanka's former President Mahinda...
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  • several high profile ministers of Rajapaksa Administration including former Economy Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa. The FCID also received training...
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    vehicles and firearms issued to them and requested former presidents Mahinda Rajapaksa and Ranil Wickremesinghe to return vehicles in excess of their entitlements...
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    with Rajapaksa family brothers Basil Rajapaksa as finance minister and Mahinda Rajapaksa as prime minister, and several more members of the Rajapaksa family...
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  • Government. In 2007 he joined the UPFA with 17 others to support Mahinda Rajapaksa, but joined the UNP in 2015. Cabinet of Sri Lanka "Tense situation at...
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    candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who campaigned on a pro-nationalistic, economic development and national security platform. Rajapaksa received 6,924,255...
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  • Gunawardena Suren Raghavan Tiran Alles Seetha Arambepola Jayantha Ketagoda Basil Rajapaksa Dhammika Perera Marjan Faleel SJB (7) Harin Fernando Tissa Attanayake...
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    and withdrew from the campaign. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 8th President of Sri Lanka (2019–2022) Basil Rajapaksa, former Minister of Finance (2021–2022), former...
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    chairman (Gotabaya Rajapaksa) and vice chair person (Roshini Cabraal, wife of Ajith Nivard Cabraal) had resigned. Basil Rajapaksa, Minister of Economic...
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  • continued to publish articles critical of President Rajapaksa's brothers Basil Rajapaksa and Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. Dushyantha Basnayake, finance director of CBE...
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    Sabry was appointed as the new minister, replacing Basil Rajapaksa (brother of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa) in the position; However, due to the worsening...
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    November 2014 with the attendance of the minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa, and the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Y. K. Sinha. ITC Hotels...
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  • Dharani Jathika Sabawa The alliance supported SLPP candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the 2019 presidential election. It had planned to contest the 2020...
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    immigration and emigration. Rajapaksa appointed his brother Basil Rajapaksa as minister of Economic Development. Together, the Rajapaksa brothers controlled over...
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