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Shiranthi Rajapaksa (Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa) was born on 18 November, 1945 in Weeraketiya, Southern Province, British Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), is a President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015. Discover Shiranthi Rajapaksa's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

Popular As Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa
Occupation Child Psychologist
Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 18 November, 1953
Birthday 18 November
Birthplace Weeraketiya, Southern Province, British Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
Nationality Sri Lankan

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His wife is Shiranthi Rajapaksa (née Wickremesinghe)

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1945

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

1957

Later in 1957, he transferred to Thurstan College, where he took part in sports such as cricket, rugger and athletics, taking part in the 400m relay team and becoming the shot put champion.

In the mid-sixties, he started work as a library assistant at the Vidyodaya Pirivena and soon became active in leftwing politics.

1965

His father who had lost his parliamentary seat in the 1965 general elections, died in November 1967.

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) party leader Sirima Bandaranaike offered his father's post of SLFP party organiser for the Beliatta electorate to his older brother Chamal.

1967

He became a member of the Ceylon Mercantile Union and was elected its branch secretary in 1967.

1968

Chamal who had joined the Ceylon Police Force as a Sub-inspector, turndown Mrs Bandaranaike's offer in favour of his younger brother and Mahinda Rajapaksa was appointed as SLFP organiser for Beliatta in 1968.

1970

Rajapaksa is a lawyer by profession and was first elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka in 1970.

Rajapaksa contested the 1970 general elections as the SLFP candidate for the Beliatta constituency and was elected to the House of Representatives having gained 23,103 votes against his rival Dr Ranjit Atapattu from the United National Party (UNP) who gained 16,477.

At the time he was the youngest member of parliament (MP) at the age of twenty-four years and served as a backbencher in the governing party.

Following changes to the admission process to the Sri Lanka Law College, which allowed young MPs to gain admission, he entered Sri Lanka Law College and studied law while serving as an MP.

1977

In July 1977, Rajapaksa lost his parliamentary seat in SLFP's landslide defeat in the 1977 general elections, to Dr Ranjit Atapattu who had gained 24,289 votes to Rajapaksa's 17,896.

2005

He served as the President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015; the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2004 to 2005, 2018, and 2019 to 2022; the Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2004 and 2018 to 2019, and the Minister of Finance from 2005 to 2015 and 2019 to 2021.

He served as the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party from 2005 to 2015.

Rajapaksa was sworn in for his first six-year term as president on 19 November 2005.

2010

He was subsequently re-elected in 2010 for a second term.

2015

He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kurunegala since 2015.

Rajapaksa was defeated in his bid for a third term in the 2015 presidential election by Maithripala Sirisena, and he left office on 9 January 2015.

Later that year, Rajapaksa unsuccessfully sought to become prime minister in the 2015 parliamentary election; that year, the United People's Freedom Alliance was defeated but was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Kurunegala District.

2018

On 26 October 2018, Rajapaksa was appointed to the office of prime minister by President Maithripala Sirisena after the United People's Freedom Alliance withdrew from the unity government.

The incumbent, Ranil Wickremesinghe, refused to accept his dismissal, stating that it was unconstitutional.

This disagreement resulted in a constitutional crisis.

The Sri Lankan Parliament passed two no-confidence motions brought against Rajapaksa on 14 and 16 November 2018.

Failing to follow proper procedures, President Sirisena rejected both.

On 3 December 2018, a court suspended Rajapaksa's powers as prime minister, ruling that his cabinet could not function until establishing its legitimacy.

Rajapaksa resigned from the post of prime minister on 15 December 2018.

Wickremesinghe was re-appointed as prime minister, and Rajapaksa was appointed Leader of the Opposition.

2019

Rajapaksa became the leader of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna in 2019, splitting the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.

He became prime minister again on 21 November 2019 after being appointed by his brother, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who had become president on 18 November after winning the 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election.

2020

On 9 August 2020, Rajapaksa was sworn in as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka for the fourth time at a Buddhist temple on Colombo's outskirts.

On 3 May 2022, a motion of no confidence aimed at Rajapaksa and his cabinet was declared by opposition leaders.

He was targeted during the 2022 Sri Lankan protests over the corruption and mismanagement by the Rajapaksa family which led to an economic crisis that brought Sri Lanka to the point of bankruptcy as it defaulted on its loans for the first time in its history since independence.

Protesters called him "Myna" and demanded his resignation which he resisted.

On 9 May 2022, Mahinda Rajapaksa organised his supporters at his official residence who were brought by buses and led by SLPP MPs. The loyalists then attacked protestors at Temple Trees before assaulting protestors at Galle Face as attacks were carried out simultaneously against protests in other areas; however this intensified protests and retaliatory violence against Rajapaksa loyalists erupted islandwide and Mahinda Rajapaksa submitted his letter of resignation the same day.

During Rajapaksa's political career, he has been accused of multiple crimes including war crimes during the last years of the Sri Lankan civil war as well as other criminal accusations including human rights violations during his presidency, corruption and for instigating violence on anti-government protestors on 9 May 2022.

As of 2023 he has been sanctioned by Canada for human rights violations.

Rajapaksa spent his formative years at the family home in Medamulana.

At the age of six, he was sent to his father's school Richmond College in Galle.

Initially, he and his elder brother were boarded with a family in Galle, later their mother rented a house in Galle called the 'Singapore House' and moved there to facilitate the education of the growing family.

In the mid-fifties, the Rajapaksa family moved to Colombo and Mahinda Rajapaksa was admitted to Nalanda College, Colombo.