Colombo, Nov. 17 -- Almost seven months after a series of bomb-blasts shook Sri Lanka, the island nation on Sunday elected former war-time defence chief Gotabaya Rajpaksa as its President. He will be sworn in as the seventh executive President of Sri Lanka on Monday.

Sri Lanka's Election Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya Rajapaksa declared the win of Gotabya Rajpaksa's who was the presidential candidate of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna(SLPP). He polled 52.25% or 69,24,250 votes in his favour at the election, while his nearest rival Sajith Premadasa of United National Party bagged 41.99% votes or 5,564,239 votes.As the preliminary results predicted a clean sweep for Rajpaksa, Premadasa resigned from the post of housing minister.Taking ...