Happy birthday
President Mahinda Rajapaksa celebrates his birthday today. His
political career started in 1970 when he was elected from the Beliatta
constituency of the Hambantota District
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa |
represented by the Rajapaksas of
Giruwapattuwa for almost a century.
He was sworn in as the fifth Executive President on November 19, 2005
and was the Prime Minister at the time he contested the Presidential
election that year. His first term in Parliament was in the United Front
Government led by Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
He was the Labour Minister in the People’s Alliance Government of
1994 and Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Minister from 1997. His father
D. A. Rajapaksa also represented the same constituency in Parliament and
was one of the founder members of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. President
Rajapaksa an Attorney-at-Law, is a past student of Mahinda College,
Galle and Thurstan College, Colombo. WN |
