“I am the victim of a political witch-hunt again” - Yoshitha

• Accuses NPP Govt. of targeting him for political reasons

Yoshitha Rajapaksa, second son of former President Mahinda  Rajapaksa, has accused the present NPP government of resorting to a political witch-hunt over a case which allegedly took place when he was a  school student.   

Yoshitha was grilled by the CID for hours yesterday morning  concerning the ownership of a plot of land in Kataragama, which he says  he has no clue about.   

According to investigators, the land belongs to the state.   

Soon after his statement to the CID, Yoshitha told the  Daily Mirror that this particular matter had surfaced between 2006 and  2007 when he was yet in school.   

He said in 2023 he had offered some assistance to a temple located in close proximity to the concerned land.   
“In 2023 I offered some assistance to this temple which was  located close by. I did not even know that the concerned land exists.  Even in 2017, the Yahapalana government inquired into this matter but my  name was not linked to the case then. Now this government is  allegedly trying to implicate me in a false land case for political  gains,” Yoshitha said.   Yoshitha further said that the previous Yahapalana  government also tried to implicate him in other false cases but he was  cleared of all of them.