Rajapaksa third best leader of free Sri Lanka: survey

President Mahinda Rajapaksa is the third best among Sri Lanka's leaders since the country became independent in 1948, shows a survey.

Conducted in January by Nielsen and the Sunday Times newspaper, the survey shows that Rajapaksa is number three, with 21 percent of the 519 respondents preferring him to other leaders, past and present.

President R. Premadasa, who ruled between 1988 and 1993, was marginally ahead of him with support from 22 percent respondents.

But the most well thought of leader was Sri Lanka's first prime minister, D.S. Senanayake, who got 31 percent of the vote, the highest.

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