On Saturday, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his residence as the protesters surrounded his residence in Colombo. The island country’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, shortly after his fleeing, has summoned an emergency party leaders’ meeting in order to discuss the situation and come to a swift resolution.
According to ANI, he is also requesting the Speaker to summon Parliament.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees his residence
The president of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled his residence as the protestors surrounded his residence in Colombo. The news of his flee came shortly after the Sri Lankan police fired tear gas at protestors on Saturday, July 9, in the largest anti-government marches in the crisis-hit country this year.
Demonstartors in thousands entered Colombo on Saturday to express their outrage over the government’s failure to protect them from economic ruin, reports stated.
The island country of 22 million population had been reeling under a severe economic crisis and has limited essential imports of fuel, food, medicine and this turmoil has been dubbed one of the worst in seven decades.
