Sri Lanka Crisis: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Resigns Parliament Speaker Abhaywardene Confirmed

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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned from the post. Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abhayawardene has given this information. His office says Sri Lanka’s parliament speaker Mahinda Yapa Abhayawardene has received President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation letter. Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the statement of the Foreign Ministry of Singapore has come to the fore. In which he has said that they are in Singapore.

Significantly, he had made an official announcement to resign on Wednesday, 13 July. The signed resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa was handed over to a senior official who will hand it over to the Speaker of the Parliament. Its formal announcement was to be made on 13 July. In view of the street protests in Sri Lanka, the cabinet will now resign if the all-party government is formed.