Abstract is: Basil Rajapaksa (born 27 April 1951) is a Sri Lankan-American politician. He is a former Minister of Finance and Member of Parliament for the national list. He was also a member of the Sri Lankan Parliament from 2007 to 2015. During the period of 2005–2010 he served as a presidential senior advisor for President Mahinda Rajapaksa and in 2007 he was appointed as a member of parliament from the national list. He was the Cabinet minister for Economic Development in President Mahinda Rajapaksa's second term (2010–2015). In the 2010 parliamentary election, he was elected from Gampaha district by receiving the highest number of preferential votes in Sri Lanka. He entered the parliament again from the national list and was appointed the Finance Minister during which he was accused of extreme negligence and mismanagement resulting in the worsening of the Sri Lankan economic crisis and was ultimately forced to resign under increasing protests by general public in the 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis. He resigned his seat in parliament on 9 June 2022.
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P646 | Freebase ID | /m/06w2f70 |
P856 | official website | https://www.facebook.com/BasilRajapaksa/?fref=ts |
P10632 | OpenSanctions ID | Q3179975 |
P27 | country of citizenship | Sri Lanka | Q854 |
P69 | educated at | Ananda College | Q3523079 |
P735 | given name | Basil | Q4926514 |
Basil | Q4926514 | ||
P102 | member of political party | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | Q1591064 |
P106 | occupation | politician | Q82955 |
P39 | position held | Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka | Q18964938 |
Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka | Q6866137 | ||
P140 | religion or worldview | Buddhism | Q748 |
P21 | sex or gender | male | Q6581097 |
P3373 | sibling | Mahinda Rajapaksa | Q57338 |
Gotabaya Rajapaksa | Q1538702 |
Q5203479 | D. A. Rajapaksa | child | P40 |
Category:Basil Rajapaksa | wikimedia | |
Arabic (ar / Q13955) | باسيل راجاباكسا | wikipedia |
Egyptian Arabic (arz / Q29919) | باسيل راجاباكسا | wikipedia |
Basil Rajapaksa | wikipedia | |
Basil Rajapaksa | wikipedia | |
バジル・ラージャパクサ | wikipedia | |
si | බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ | wikipedia |
ta | பசில் ராஜபக்ச | wikipedia |
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