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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plain Truth" data-source="post: 8102625" data-attributes="member: 301370">Basil Rohana Rajapaksa (born ) is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka" target="_blank">Sri Lankan</a> politician and member of parliament for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gampaha_District" target="_blank">Gampaha District</a>. The brother of Sri Lankan President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" target="_blank">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a>,  he served as a presidential senior advisor and member of parliament  from the national list in the first Rajapaksa administration. He was  re-elected to parliament in April 2010, obtaining the highest number of  preferential votes in the county at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election,_2010" target="_blank">2010 general election</a>. Rajapaksa was subsequently appointed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_Minister" target="_blank">Cabinet Minister</a> of Economic Development.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa#cite_note-0" target="_blank">[1]</a> He hails from a well known political family in Sri Lanka. His father, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._A._Rajapaksa" target="_blank">D. A. Rajapaksa</a>, was a prominent politician, independence agitator, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" target="_blank">Member of Parliament</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_%28government%29" target="_blank">Cabinet Minister</a> of Agriculture and Land in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wijeyananda_Dahanayake" target="_blank">Wijeyananda Dahanayake</a>'s government. He had his secondary education at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_College" target="_blank">Ananda College</a> Colombo.     Contents   <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa#Political_career" target="_blank"> </a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa#See_also" target="_blank">2 See also</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa#Reference" target="_blank">3 Reference</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa#External_links" target="_blank">4 External links</a></li> </ul>     Political career In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election,_1977" target="_blank">1977 General Elections</a> he contested Mulkirigala Electorate from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party but was defeated.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa#cite_note-1" target="_blank">[2]</a> Basil Rajapaksa later Campaigned for first executive President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.R._Jayewardene" target="_blank">J.R. Jayewardene</a> against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" target="_blank">SLFP</a> in 1982 Referendum and later joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_National_Party" target="_blank">United National Party</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa#cite_note-2" target="_blank">[3]</a> May 1983 Mulkirigala by- election he campaigned for UNP and worked as UNP election agent.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa#cite_note-3" target="_blank">[4]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa#cite_note-4" target="_blank">[5]</a> Later he worked under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamini_Dissanayake" target="_blank">Gamini Dissanayake</a> and left to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" target="_blank">United States</a> soon after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranasinghe_Premadasa" target="_blank">Ranasinghe Premadasa</a>’s impeachment collapsed.</blockquote>

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