Basil Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan-American politician who is not only known for being Sri Lanka’s Finance Minister during the 2022 Sri Lankan economic crisis but also for being the younger brother of the former Sri Lankan Presidents Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa.According to several sources, Basil Rajapaksa’s political career began in the late 1960s when he helped his elder brother Mahinda Rajapaksa, a member of the Sri Lankan Freedom Party (SLFP), during the 1970 parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka following which Basil became a member of the Sri Lankan Freedom Party (SLFP).Basil Rajapaksa contested his first general elections in Sri Lanka from the Mulkirigala Electorate in 1977, where he lost the elections to a United National Party (UNP) candidate.
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