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Basil Rajapaksa sworn in as MP

Minister Basil Rajapaksa took oaths as a Member of Parliament (MP) before Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane today.

Update:

Basil Rohana Rajapaksa was sworn in as a new Member of the ninth Parliament before Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena yesterday (08).

After the official oath taken before the Speaker,he signed in the Member Roll kept before the Secretary General of Parliament Dhammika Dasanayake.

This is third occasion that he entered Parliament. Basil Rohana Rajapaksa was elected to Parliament from the National list of the United Peoples Freedom Alliance in 2007. In the 2010 Parliamentary Election, he was elected from Gampaha district by obtaining the highest number of preferential votes in Sri Lanka. He gained a record 425,861 preferential votes.

He was the Cabinet Minister for Economic Development from 2007 to 2010 in the sixth Parliament and 2010 to 2015 in the seventh Parliament. He has held a number of positions as Senior Advisor to the President and head of Presidential Task Forces.

 

Born in 1951 in Giruwapaththuwa, Hambantota Basil Rohana Rajapaksa is the head of the Presidential Task Force for Economic Reviewal and Poverty Eradication and Presidential Task Force on Creating a Green Sri Lanka with Sustainable Solution to Climate Change. He was educated at Isipathana College Colombo and Ananda College.

Basil Rohana Rajapaksa was sworn in as a new Member of the ninth Parliament before Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena yesterday (08).

After the official oath taken before the Speaker,he signed in the Member Roll kept before the Secretary General of Parliament Dhammika Dasanayake.

This is third occasion that he entered Parliament. Basil Rohana Rajapaksa was elected to Parliament from the National list of the United Peoples Freedom Alliance in 2007. In the 2010 Parliamentary Election, he was elected from Gampaha district by obtaining the highest number of preferential votes in Sri Lanka. He gained a record 425,861 preferential votes.

He was the Cabinet Minister for Economic Development from 2007 to 2010 in the sixth Parliament and 2010 to 2015 in the seventh Parliament. He has held a number of positions as Senior Advisor to the President and head of Presidential Task Forces.

Born in 1951 in Giruwapaththuwa, Hambantota Basil Rohana Rajapaksa is the head of the Presidential Task Force for Economic Reviewal and Poverty Eradication and Presidential Task Force on Creating a Green Sri Lanka with Sustainable Solution to Climate Change. He was educated at Isipathana College Colombo and Ananda College.


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