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3 days ago · Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan politician who served as president of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015 and as prime minister from 2019 to 2022. His presidency oversaw the end of the country’s civil war (1983–2009) and was marked by large investments in infrastructure projects.
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3 days ago · Colombo: Sri Lanka's powerful Rajapaksa clan, which suffered political battering due to the country's worst economic crisis in 2022, will launch its political comeback bid on Sunday by targeting...
3 days ago · The election will be the first after the mass protests of 2022 that sent the then Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, home, forced the then President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, into hiding abroad,...
3 days ago · Ex-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, ex-PM Mahinda Rajapaksa and ex-finance minister Basil Rajapaksa were ousted from power during anti-govt protests following the crippling financial and political crisis in 2022.
3 days ago · He said that Mahinda Rajapaksa would inaugurate the rally, aiming to prepare the party grassroots for the major elections –- the presidential or the parliamentary. “We will start our campaign to gear the party for whatever the election that comes first,” Chandrasena said.
3 days ago · Sri Lankan prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa (77) is at the helm of the current economic crisis in the island nation. In his long political career, he served as President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015, as Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2004 and 2018 to 2019, and as Minister of Finance from 2005 to 2015 and 2019 to 2021.
4 days ago · He previously served as defence minister under his brother, the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa. They were jointly credited with crushing the Tamil Tiger insurgency but lost power in 2015, and later faced investigations into extra-judicial killings, human rights abuses and large-scale corruption. during their time in government.
