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Former President of Sri Lanka Born: June 20, 1949 (age 73 years), Matara, Sri Lanka Full name: Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa Nationality: Sri Lankan Spouse: Ioma Rajapaksa Siblings: Mahinda Rajapaksa, Basil Rajapaksa Children: Manoj Rajapaksa Education: Defence Services Staff College (1983) Birth June 20, 1949 Age 73 years Citizenship Sri Lanka (1949-2003, 2005-Present) and United States (2003-2019) Political Party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Post Former President of Sri Lanka (November 18, 2019 to July 13, 2022) Spouse Ioma Rajapaksa Parents Don Alwin Rajapaksa (father)Dandina Samarasinghe nee Dissanayake (Mother) Siblings Mahinda RajapaksaBasil RajapaksaChamal RajapaksaGandini RajapaksaJayanthi RajapaksaPreethi RajapaksaDudley RajapaksaChandra Tudor Rajapaksa Education Sri Lanka Military Academy, University of Colombo Children Manoj Rajapaksa
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Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa was born in Palatuwa in the Matara District, as the fifth of nine siblings, and was brought up in Weeraketiya in the southern rural district of Hambantota. He hails from a well-known political family in Sri Lanka. His father, D. A. Rajapaksa, was a prominent politician, independence agitator, Member of Parliament, Deputy Speaker and Cabinet Minister of Agriculture and Land in Wijeyananda Dahanayake’s government. His elder brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa was first elected to parliament as a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party at the age of 24 in 1970, who gradually rose through the party ranks becoming the Leader of the Opposition in 2001, Prime Minister in 2004 and the President of Sri Lanka in 2005. Two of his other brothers, Chamal Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa, are also current Members of Parliament. He obtained his primary and secondary education at Ananda College, Colombo. In September 2018 Director of the Anti Corruption Movement revealed a conspiracy to assassinate President Maithripala Sirisena and former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa because the duo are against the drug trade. CID of Sri Lanka Police investigated the issue. Gotabaya Rajapaksa is the 8th President of Sri Lanka who flew to the Maldives amid the recent political crisis in the country on July 13, 2022. Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a Sri Lanka politician and a former military officer who served as the eighth President of Sri Lanka from 2019 to 2022. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was born to a prominent political family from the Southern Province. He took early retirement from the army and moved into the field of information technology before he immigrated to the United States in 1998. Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned to Sri Lanka in 2005, to assist his brother in his presidential campaign. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in 2018, had emerged as a possible candidate for the 2019 Presidential election in Sri Lanka, which he successfully contested. Gotabaya Rajapaksa became the first President of Sri Lanka in 2019 with a military background and also the first President who had not held an elected office in prior. On July 9, 2022, Gotabaya Rajapaksa informed the Speaker of the Parliament that he will resign as the President on July 13, 2022. Birth June 20, 1949 Age 73 years Citizenship Sri Lanka (1949-2003, 2005-Present) and United States (2003-2019) Political Party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Post Former President of Sri Lanka (November 18, 2019 to July 13, 2022) Spouse Ioma Rajapaksa Don Alwin Rajapaksa (father) Dandina Samarasinghe nee Dissanayake (Mother)
