Rajapaksa to Fly to Maldives or India? Immigration Says Won’t Let Prez Leave Before He Quits Tomorrow
President Sri Lanka is considering using Navy patrol crafts to escape from the island Tuesday after an embarrassing deadlock with airport immigration, the official source said. Gotabaya Rajapaksa had promised to resign on Wednesday and clean the path for the “peaceful transition of power” after protesting on him over the worst economic crisis in the country.
The 73 -year -old leader fled from his official residence in Colombo right before tens of thousands of protesters sagged him on Saturday. He then wanted to travel to Dubai, said officials. As president, Rajapaksa enjoyed the immunity from the arrest, and he was believed to want to go abroad before resigning to avoid the possibility of being detained.
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis finally overthrowing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa who planned to resign on July 13, bowed to strong pressure after protesting violence in which demonstrators invaded the official residence of the president and burned the prime minister’s house in Colombo. Violence and political chaos that gripped the island of 22 million came in the middle of negotiations with International Monetary Funds (IMF) on the rescue plan, as well as proposals to restructure their sovereign debt, both of which could be thrown into chaos. READ MORE
Immigration officials said that they would not allow Gotabaya and Basil Rajapaksa to leave Sri Lanka. As soon as President Rajapaksa resigned tomorrow, he had to fly to the Maldives or India by army planes to escape from people’s anger.
Sri Lanka, who was still gripped in the crisis, had seen the resignation of former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and then the dismissal of Gotabaya Rajapaksa. This is what is in front of Sri Lanka:
July 13 – Ranil Wickremesinghe is likely to be inaugurated as a temporary president of July 13 – Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign officially July 15 – Parliament to be held July 19 – Nominations to be called July 20 – New President to be elected by MPs Members
Basil Rajapaksa, former Minister of Finance Sri Lanka and younger siblings from the president who was fought by Gotabaya Rajapaksa, behind the Colombo Airport on Tuesday when he tried to leave the country through the VIP terminal, said an immigration officer, in the midst of an increase in the family who Strong for strong families for strong families for strong families for strong families for strong families for strong families for strong families for it for strong families for strong families for families
The strong for that is for a strong family for a strong family for that for that for the VIP terminal, said an immigration officer, in the midst of anger towards a strong family for a strong family handling the worst economic crisis. Basil Rajapaksa, 71, tried to leave the island country that was devastated by the crisis, the day before Parliament Chairman Mahinda Yapa Abeywarda was expected to openly announce the resignation of President Rajapaksa to the country.
React in public for the first time after his private home was burned by anti-government protesters on Saturday, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday said only people with the torch building “Pattern-like Hitler”. In a special television statement, Wickremesinghe said he accepted the prime minister’s position because the economy was a mess. Wickremesinghe, 73, said he took over tasks that were difficult to rebuild the economy when the public had difficulty without fuel, cooking gas, and electricity. High living costs, no fuel, there is a foreign exchange crisis. People lose their jobs. I see the suffering of people, “he said.
India convinced Sri Lanka about all assistance regarding food and medical assistance after a request from Colombo. India told Sri Lanka that they participated in the proposed aid consortium consisting of Asian Chinese and Japanese giants, people who were familiar with the development had told MoneyControl. “Previous requests from the country were for debt restructuring,
financial assistance, and credit channels. But the rapidly deteriorating scenario has caused fears of a full food crisis if the situation does not change quickly, “the people mentioned above told moneycontrol. The people mentioned above also said that Colombo leaned against his closest neighbors who sought food security for their citizens if needed. READ MORE