Sri Lanka, Nov. 20 -- SLPP MP Namal Rajapaksa stated that recent news reports concerning his university degree are entirely false.

Responding to media inquiries about the latest revelations, Rajapaksa noted that the current Government had initiated a Court investigation into the matter shortly after coming to power.

He said that while the results of the B-report submitted to the court have not yet been announced, he would address these slanderous allegations at the Nugegoda rally on the 21st.

"Just a few weeks after this government came to power, they submitted a B-report to court and received approval to investigate the veracity of my degree," Rajapaksa told journalists.

"They have been conducting inquiries into this for several mont...