Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s media spokesperson, Attorney-at-Law Manoj Gamage, has dismissed reports that Rajapaksa has been hospitalised due to an illness as false.

Gamage stated that Rajapaksa was staying at his residence and was in good physical and mental health.

He also alleged that political opponents were spreading the reports to portray the former President as weakened by the current Government’s actions, and urged the public not to be misled.