Namal Rajapaksa

Namal Rajapaksa
Minister of Youth and Sports
In office
12 August 2020 – 3 April 2022
PresidentGotabaya Rajapaksa
Prime MinisterMahinda Rajapaksa
Preceded byDullas Alahapperuma
Succeeded byThenuka Vidanagamage
Member of Parliament
for Hambantota District
Assumed office
22 April 2010
Majority166,660 Preferential Votes
Personal details
Born
Lakshman Namal Rajapaksa

(1986-04-10) 10 April 1986 (age 38)
NationalitySri Lankan
Political partySri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
Spouse
Limini Weerasinghe
(m. 2019)
Children2
Parent(s)Mahinda Rajapaksa (father)
Shiranthi Rajapaksa (mother)
Residence(s)Colombo and Hambantota
Alma materS. Thomas' College
City University London
Sri Lanka Law College
OccupationLawyer
ProfessionPolitician

Lakshman Namal Rajapaksa (Sinhala: ලක්ශ්මන් නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ, Tamil: நாமல் ராஜபக்ஷ; born 10 April 1986; known as Namal Rajapaksa) is a Sri Lankan politician and lawyer.[1] He is the eldest son of former President and former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and a member of parliament.[2][3][4][5] He was the Minister of Youth and Sports from 2020 to 2022.

  1. ^ "Two stories:Namal Rajapaksa took oaths as Attorney-at-Law and two students arrested for exam fraud". Colombo Telegraph. 16 December 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Namal Rajapaksa's law exam cheating case goes to Geneva". Colombo Telegraph. 30 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Namal Rajapaksa to open Mihin Lanka Airlines office in Jaffna". TamilNet. 10 September 2010.
  4. ^ "The son also rises". The Economist. 17 March 2011.
  5. ^ Sriskandarajah, Usha (29 October 2012). "Sri Lanka: A look at the Rajapaksas prior to the UPR". South Asia Analysis Group. Archived from the original on 17 January 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)