| Mahinda Rajapaksa became Prime
Minister of Sri Lanka in April 2004. An attorney-at-law, he
was first elected to Parliament from the Beliatta seat in 1970,
being the youngest member in the house, aged just 24 years.
His father, D. A. Rajapaksa had represented the same seat from
1947 to 1965. Although many of the past leaders of Sri Lanka’s
major political parties have been born outside Colombo, hardly
any of them truly had roots in rural Sri Lanka. Mahinda is one
of this select few. Born in Weeraketiya, Mahinda schooled in
Richmond College, Galle, later moving to Nalanda College and
Thurstan College, Colombo, only in order to attend secondary
school. Throughout his parliamentary career, except for the
period from 1994-2001 when he was a minister, he continued his
law practice in Tangalle.....
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PM's Message for Independance
Day 2005
The dawning of a new era: Birth of a new hope...
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