Former Prime Minister Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Minister of Finance Basil Rajapaksa on Thursday gave efforts to the Supreme Court through their lawyer that they would not leave the country being hit by a crisis until the petition of fundamental rights submitted against them was heard on Friday, a report Media said on Thursday, reported PTI.
The aircraft carrying Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa President landed in Singapore, according to the AFP news agency.
Army soldiers have been given the authority to use the strengths needed to prevent the destruction of property and life, report Newswire. Armed forces and police members have been empowered to uphold the law and state order and maintain the same thing to protect people, public property and life.
Sri Lanka’s army denied reports about the death of a police officer and an army during protest near parliament, reporting Newswire. Brigadier Nilantha Premaratne further said that no security officer died in an incident reported near parliament last night.
Maldives official said President Sri Lanka Rajapaksa brought Saudi Airlines aircraft to Singapore, reporting AP. Rajapaksa has departed from the Maldives on the Saudi SV 788 airline flight to Singapore, they said. He will then fly to Saudi Arabia.
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis increased in minute to minute with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa refused to resign, despite ensuring to do it on Wednesday. He appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesing, the president who acted after he fled to men, Maldives, with his wife and two staff on Wednesday, made the protesters who made an angry further.
The protesters have so far taken over the Presidential Palace, PM Office, PM House, and State Broadcasters. Opposition leader Sajith Premradasa said that the government’s actions so far “Total Anarchy”.
The protesters said they did not want Wickremesinghe at the top of the leadership of the state affairs because he was chosen by Rajapaksa himself. Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywarda said that Rajapaksa would resign on Monday, but the President did not. Abeywarda also told the country that the election to elect a new president would be held on July 20.
Meanwhile, the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung on Wednesday urged the political brotherhood of Sri Lanka to ensure the transfer of peaceful power and call for the rule of law to be upheld in the island country that was hit by a crisis. Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said that his party monitored the situation in the island country but would not interfere in the affairs of the country.
The post Sri Lanka crisis LIVE | Plane carrying President Gotabaya lands in Singapore first appeared on News On Sight.