Namal Rajapaksa
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Honourable Namal Rajapaksa නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ MP |
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| Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament for Hambantota District |
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Assumed office 2010 |
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| Born |
Lakshman Namal Rajapaksa 10 April 1986 |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Political party | Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
| Other political affiliations |
United People's Freedom Alliance |
| Relations |
Mahinda Rajapaksa (Father) Shiranthi Rajapaksa (Mother) Basil Rajapaksa (Uncle) Gotabhaya Rajapaksa (Uncle) Yoshitha Rajapaksa (brother) |
| Alma mater |
S. Thomas' College City University London Sri Lanka Law College |
| Religion | Theravada Buddhism |
| Website | www.namalrajapaksa.com |
Lakshman Namal Rajapaksa (Sinhalese: ලක්ශ්මන් නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ; born 10 April 1986; known as Namal Rajapaksa) is a Sri Lankan politician. He is one of three son of Sri Lankan former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and a member of parliament. It was widely believed that Rajapaksa was to be groomed to succeed his father.
Rajapaksa was born on 10 April 1986. He is the son of Mahinda Rajapaksa and Shiranthi Rajapaksa. He has two younger brothers – Yoshitha and Rohitha. His paternal grandfather D. A. Rajapaksa was a member of parliament and Minister of Agriculture and Land in Wijeyananda Dahanayake's government.
Rajapaksa was educated at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, where he captained the school's 1st XV rugby team. After school Rajapaksa joined Cardiff University to study law. He then went to City University London from where he graduated in September 2009 with a third-class degree law degree.
Rajapaksa then joined Sri Lanka Law College to qualify as an attorney at law. He sat the college's preliminary exam in October 2009 and passed with second class honours. It was alleged that Rajapaksa sat the exam in a special cubicle that was set aside for him and the college's principal accompanied him.
In December 2010, several media sources reported that Rajapaksa had allegedly received special treatment during his final examination at Sri Lanka Law College. A fellow law student, Thushara Jayarathna, alleged that Rajapaksa had been given a separate room along with an internet enabled computer, later filing a complaint with the Law College examination system, Keselwaththa police station and the Supreme Court.
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