Yoshitha Rajapaksa
| Full name | Yoshitha Kanishka Rajapaksa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 12 June 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Colombo, Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 92 kg (14 st 7 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Britannia Royal Naval College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Occupation(s) | former naval officer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Number Eight/Flanker | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 2006-2015 | Navy SC | () | |
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| 2014-present | Ananda College, Colombo | ||
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| Allegiance | Sri Lanka |
| Service/branch | Sri Lanka Navy |
| Years of service | 2006-2015 |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
Yoshitha Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan sportsmen and former naval officer. He is the son of the sixth President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa. He was Lieutenant in the Sri Lanka Navy and an aide-de-camp to the President.He is one of the owners of Carlton Sports Network one of the several organizations such as Carlton Pre school and Carlton rugby named after the Carlton House of the Rajapaksa. and was a former captain of the Sri Lanka national rugby union team and the Navy SC rugby team. On January 30, 2016, Yoshitha Rajapaksa and several senior executives of the Carlton Sports Network Channel were remanded by the Kaduwela Magistrate on charges of financial crimes including alleged charges on money laundering.
He is the second son of Mahinda Rajapaksa and Shiranthi Rajapaksa. He has two brothers – Namal and Rohitha. His paternal grandfather D. A. Rajapaksa was a Member of Parliament and Minister of Agriculture and Land in Wijeyananda Dahanayake's government. His maternal grandfather, E. P. Wickramasinghe was a retired Commodore in the Sri Lanka Navy.
Rajapaksa was educated at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia.
In 2006, he joined the Sri Lanka Navy as a cadet officer and received his basic training at the Naval and Maritime Academy where he was promoted to Midshipmen and appointed aide-de-camp to his father the President. Soon thereafter he proceed to Britannia Royal Naval College for his officer training and underwent training on board HMS Ocean during her deployment to the Caribbean and with the Fast Attack Flotilla. In 2009, he was commissioned as an Acting Sub Lieutenant in Executive Branch of the Sri Lanka Navy. In January 2015, he was decommissioned from then rank of Lieutenant by his father President Mahinda Rajapaksa, soon after the latter's defeat at the Sri Lankan presidential election, 2015 discharging him from the navy.
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