Basil Rajapaksa leaves for Dubai
Posted by Editor on December 15, 2021 - 9:43 am

Sri Lanka’s finance minister Basil Rajapaksa (Photo By ISHARA S. KODIKARA)
Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa left for Dubai this morning (December 15), sources said.
The Minister was accompanied by his wife and they left from BIA for Dubai on Emirates flight EK-649 at 12.55 a.m.
According to sources it was a personal visit.
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Time to check on New Fortress / Yugadanavi deposits?
Going all over the world with the begging bowl to provide subsidised energy, food, education, government jobs to the majority of the population since they demand and expect. “2500 years of proud heritage to kaiwaru gahanna about, begging and living on loans as a nation. How disgusting!
Indra Akke,
He is not going around with a begging bowl.
Proceeding to the luxury mansion with golden chandeliers in sunny California for a month’s holiday.
When he went to India with a begging bowl, he was ignored by the Modi !!!
you seems to know a lot about him and his holidays. Are you the SL servant who look after the luxury mansion with golden chandeliers in sunny California?
Indra Akke,
I wish the multi-billionaire would employ me as a housekeeper in his glittering golden palace in California.
No chance.
Indar Akke, I worked in SL private and public sector in senior positions for . 40 yrs and at the end of it, when i retired 8 yrs ago, I was told that my EPF was gambled in the Greek Market and had been reduced to zero.
I have been living in a tin shed in a verandah down south and watch the rich and the powerful leaders drive past in 4 wheel drives.