Gotabaya Rajapaksa Resigns As President Of Sri Lanka

Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigns as President of Sri Lanka, tanks deployed outside Parliament: Sri Lanka Crisis.

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned from his post.

After reaching Singapore from the Maldives on Thursday evening, he mailed his resignation letter to the Speaker of the Parliament, Mahinda Yapa Abhaywardene.

A formal announcement of the President’s resignation could be made on Friday.

Tension still prevails in Colombo, in view of which tanks have been deployed outside the Parliament. Curfew has also been imposed till Friday morning.

Protesters have vacated some of the main administrative buildings, including the Rashtrapati Bhavan and the Prime Minister’s residence.

The Speaker’s Media Secretary Indunil Abhayawardene said President Rajapaksa’s resignation has been received through the High Commission of Sri Lanka in Singapore.

It will be announced on Friday after the verification process and legal formalities. The Speaker wants to see the original signature of the President.

The original copy of the resignation will be brought by the next flight available from Singapore.

The speaker had sent information to Rajapaksa that if he did not resign, legal remedies would be considered for his removal.

Nasheed has already announced Rajapaksa’s resignation.

In an unexpected development, the Speaker of the Maldivian Parliament Mohamed Nasheed has already announced Rajapaksa’s resignation.

Nasheed tweeted, “The President of Sri Lanka has resigned. I am hopeful that now Sri Lanka can move forward.

I believe if the President was still in Sri Lanka, he would not have resigned. I appreciate the thoughtful actions of the Maldivian government.

Protesters are frozen in the President’s office.

The protesters have vacated the Rashtrapati Bhavan and the Prime Minister’s residence.

But the President’s office and Galle’s faces are frozen and are adamant about continuing the protest till the demands are met.

They are demanding the resignation of both the President and the Prime Minister.

In view of this, a curfew was imposed in Colombo from 12 noon on Thursday to 5 in the morning on Friday. The curfew was lifted on Thursday morning.

Security in Parliament has been beefed up. Tanks have been deployed outside Parliament. To enforce the curfew, the jawans have conducted a flag march.

Gotabaya was taken from Singapore airport under heavy security.

Passenger President Gotabaya, accompanied by his wife and two security officials, arrived in Singapore on Thursday evening on a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight from the Maldives.

One passenger, hiding his identity, said that Gotabaya was taken from Singapore airport in a convoy of black vehicles under heavy security.

Singapore’s Foreign Ministry has said that Gotabaya has come on a personal visit. They have neither sought asylum nor have they been given asylum.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigns as President: Gotabaya ran away without resigning.

Gotabaya had fled Colombo to the Maldives in the early hours of Wednesday without resigning to evade arrest. He could not be arrested while he was president.

Confusion over the election of the new President on July 20, due to the President not resigning, the election of the new President was also hung in the balance on July 20.

Now that the President has resigned and his formal announcement is yet to be made, it is expected that next week Sri Lanka will get a new President.

Parliament was to be in session on Friday, which will probably not happen now.

Opposition parties have also asked Prime Minister and caretaker President Wickremesinghe to resign immediately. If not, it has been said to bring a no-confidence motion against him in Parliament.

84 injured, one dead in protests so far.

On Wednesday, protesters were furious over Gotabaya’s announcement to flee to the Maldives and to make Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe caretaker president.

The Prime Minister’s Office was raided and Parliament was also surrounded.

After this, 84 people were injured in the clash between the security forces and the protesters, who have been admitted to the hospital. One protester has also died.

He had trouble breathing after releasing the tear gas shells. The protesters also snatched a T-56 rifle and 60 bullets from an Army jawan.