Former President and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa’s youngest son, Rohitha Rajapaksa, got married at a gala wedding in Weeraketiya – the hometown of the Rajapaksa family – this morning.
Rajapaksa married Tatyana Lee Jayaratne, a model and a young businesswoman.
The ceremony was studded with politicians from both parties. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, a long-standing personal friend of former President Rajapaksa, was also seen among the participants.
Several UNP Ministers including Mangala Samaraweera, Kabir Hashim and Sagala Ratnayaka also attended the wedding.
On his official Twitter account, Rohitha Rajapaksa identifies himself as a “Space Systems Engineer, a pilot, a Rugby player and a proud Sri Lankan.”
He has also earned popularity as a singer
රාජපක්ෂවරුන් හා රුහුණු රට අතර පවතින සම්බන්ධතාව සමාන කළ හැක්කේ මව හා දරුවා පෙකණිවැලෙන් සම්බන්ධ වන ආකාරයටය. ඒ තරමටම රාජපක්ෂවරුන් හා රුහුණු රට අතර සම්බන්ධයක් තිබේ. ශී්ර ලංකාවේ ඈත අතීතයේ සිටම යම් යම් පරපුරු රට පාලනයට සම්බන්ධ වී කරන ලද වැඩ කොටස්වල බොහෝ සුවිශේෂීකම් තිබේ.
Mahinda Rajapaksa was the 5th President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. His election for a second term of office in the Presidential Election, held on January 26, 2010, saw the Sri Lankan electorate recognising him as the national leader who liberated the country from the terrorism of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and set the country on the path to peace, stronger democracy and rapid economic development. The re-election of Mahinda Rajapaksa took place in the first nationwide election held after the defeat of the LTTE in May in 2009, and the first where people from all parts of the country were free to participate in elections after more than two decades.
It is this loyalty that saw him chosen as Prime Minister after the General Election of April 2004, when the United People’s Freedom Alliance, a coalition led by the SLFP, won a majority in Parliament. He had by then risen to the position of Senior Vice President of the SLFP. Loyalty to party also saw him chosen as the SLFP’s presidential nominee in November 2005