Namal Rajapaksa, the son of Sri Lankan Sports and Youth Affairs Minister and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, has resigned from all departments. He thanked voters and party workers and said his resignation had been announced and would take effect soon. Earlier, it was reported that Mahinda Rajapaksa had resigned, but the PM’s office denied the allegations.
The office said reports that Mahinda had handed in his resignation to the president were not true. Protests once morest the Rajapaksa government are raging across Sri Lanka in the wake of the severe financial crisis. There is a severe shortage of food, fuel and other necessities. It is alleged that the government’s misguided policies led to such an economic crisis.
A weekend curfew was declared in Sri Lanka as part of a crackdown on protests once morest President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. Then the police have also been made once morest the protesters who have violated curfew. Authorities say 664 people have been arrested so far for violating the curfew. Mahinda Rajapaksa will take over as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 2019.
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