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...

2010 Parliamentary Elections, Chamal Rajapaksa, Basil Rajapaksa and Namal Rajapaksa were elected. Basil Rajapaksa received 425,100 preferential votes from...

Mahinda Rajapaksa (Sinhala: මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ; Tamil: மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ; born Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa; 18 November 1945) is a Sri Lankan politician. He served...

in June 2022, succeeding Basil Rajapaksa from the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, briefly serving President Gotabaya Rajapaksa as his Minister of Investment...

This included three ministers from the Rajapaksa family: Chamal Rajapaksa, Basil Rajapaksa, and Namal Rajapaksa. The president was to announce the new...

Lankan politician Basil Rajapaksa, (born 1951), Sri Lankan politician Chamal Rajapaksa (born 1942), Sri Lankan politician D. A. Rajapaksa (1905–1967), Ceylonese...

Rohitha Rajapaksa (born 15 June 1989) is a Sri Lankan and media personality. He is the youngest son of Sri Lanka's former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. He...

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...

Jayanthi, Mahinda, Chandra, Basil, Gotabhaya, Dudley, Preethi and Gandani. At the defeat in the 1965 general elections, Rajapaksa not only lost his political...

three younger brothers: Mahinda Rajapaksa, Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa and two younger sisters, to D. A. Rajapaksa and Dona Dandina Samarasinghe...

portfolio. Following the 2005 presidential elections, President Mahinda Rajapaksa appointed him as the Minister of State Banking Development in November...

2019 that scared off tourists. With brothers Basil Rajapaksa as Finance Minister and Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister, the sense of nepotism and mismanagement...

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...

6 July 2021 – Jayantha Ketagoda (SLPFA/NAT) resigned, replaced by Basil Rajapaksa (SLPFA/NAT). 13 September 2021 – Ajith Nivard Cabraal (SLPFA/NAT) resigned...

2024. Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 8th President of Sri Lanka (2019–2022) Basil Rajapaksa, former Minister of Finance (2021–2022), former...

Crimes Investigation Division. This led to arrest Basil Rajapaksa the younger brother of Mahinda Rajapaksa and his political henchmen who were involved in...

Lakshman Namal Rajapaksa (Sinhala: ලක්ශ්මන් නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ, Tamil: நாமல் ராஜபக்ஷ; born 10 April 1986; known as Namal Rajapaksa) is a Sri Lankan Politician...

several high profile ministers of Rajapaksa Administration including former Economy Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa. The FCID also received training...

with Rajapaksa family brothers Basil Rajapaksa as finance minister and Mahinda Rajapaksa as prime minister, and several more members of the Rajapaksa family...

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...

Sabry was appointed as the new minister, replacing Basil Rajapaksa (brother of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa) in the position; However, due to the worsening...

defeated by Gotabaya Rajapaksa who campaigned on a pro-nationalistic, economic development and national security platform in which Rajapaksa received 6,924...

January 2015, two years ahead of schedule. Incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa was the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance's candidate, seeking a...

late 2004, Basil Rajapaksa had approached Wickrematunge to join and help him run the 2005 Sri Lankan presidential election campaign for Rajapaksa which Wickrematunge...

later served as Treasurer. During the 1981 Presidential poll, when Basil Rajapaksa joined the United National Party, he took over the responsibility of...

immigration and emigration. Rajapaksa appointed his brother Basil Rajapaksa as minister of Economic Development. Together, the Rajapaksa brothers controlled over...

in the 2010 presidential election contesting against President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Following his controversial defeat in the presidential election he was...

2010. Leaving parliament in 2015, he returned as a member of Mahinda Rajapaksa's Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and the leader of the United People's Party...

continued to publish articles critical of President Rajapaksa's brothers Basil Rajapaksa and Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. Dushyantha Basnayake, finance director of CBE...

against a bill proposed by Basil Rajapaksa the minister for economic development and the brother of the president Mahinda Rajapaksa. Bandaranayake was replaced...