RAJAPAKSA’S SON ARRESTED FOR PROTESTING OUTSIDE INDIAN CONSULATE

COLOMBO: Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s elder son has been arrested along with two other parliamentarians for protesting outside the Indian consulate in Hambantota over the proposed lease of an airport to an Indian company. They staged the demonstration to protest the Sri Lankan government’s deal with India to handover the Mattala Mahinda Rajapaksa International Airport. This was a major infrastructure project of Rajapaksa during his presidency with loan support coming from China. Namal Rajapaksa and six other have been accused of causing damage to public property, unlawful assembly and defying a court order not to hold demonstrations in the Hambantota judicial area, said police.