Sri Lanka's contentious Rajapaksa scion enters presidential race

A scion of Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa family, presidential candidate Namal Rajapaksa, center, gestures as he receives ticket from the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party in Colombo on Aug. 7, 2024.

Sri Lanka's ruling party nominated a scion of the controversial Rajapaksa family Wednesday to challenge the incumbent president in Sept. 21 polls, the first since the country's unprecedented economic meltdown.