PM Modi wishes newly sworn-in Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated his newly sworn-in Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa on Twitter. PM Modi is one of first world leers to wish Rajapaksa, a former two-term President, soon after he took his oath of office on Thursday. Sri Lankan President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday named his elder bror and former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa as new Prime Minister after incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe anunced his resignation from post following election debacle.

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PM Modi soon got a response from new Lankan PM on Twitter. two leers are very active on microblogging site and often interact on platform to mark various occasions. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar h met Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday to discuss strengning bilateral relations between India and Sri Lanka.

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Decisive campaign to end civil war

Mahinda Rajapaksa won power in 2005 and went on to become South Asia's longest-serving leer. He became country's youngest-ever parliamentarian in 1970 at of 24. two brors led a decisive campaign that helped end island nation's three-dece-long civil war against Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe anunced his resignation, days after ruling party's candidate lost presidential election to Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa defeated Wickremesinghe's deputy Sajith Premasa.

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