Sri Lanka’s contentious Rajapaksa scion enters presidential race
- 07-Aug-2024
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s ruling party nominated a scion of the controversial Rajapaksa family Wednesday to challenge the incumbent president in September 21 polls, the first since the country’s unprecedented economic meltdown. The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party named Namal Rajapaksa, 38, as its candidate at a Buddhist ceremony at their party office in the […]