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Sri Lankan Prez sacks Wickremesinghe, appoints Rajapaksa as new PM
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Sri Lankan Prez sacks Wickremesinghe, appoints Rajapaksa as new PM

| @indiablooms | 26 Oct 2018, 06:24 pm

Colombo, Oct 26 (IBNS): Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena on Friday sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and appointed former president Mahinda Rajapaksa as the new premier.

Rajapaksa was sworn-in on Friday itself.

Relations between Sirisena and Wickremesinghe's political parties, who have governed in coalition since 2015, received setback since both suffered humiliating losses in February's local council elections.

According to reports, they have clashed in cabinet last week over government plans to lease a container terminal to neighbouring India.

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