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Sri Lanka: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa accepts resignation of PM Mahinda Rajapaksa

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | May 10, 2022, at 02:15 pm

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Colombo: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has accepted the resignation of his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Prime Minister, a gazette notification issued by the Sri Lankan Presidential Secretariat said late on Monday night.

Mahinda Rajapaksa sent in his resignation letter to the President earlier in the day after violent clashes erupted between pro-government and anti-government protestors in the island nation.

The Gazette notification states: “It is hereby notified that Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa, MP, Prime Minister, has resigned the Office of Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka under Article 47 (2) (b) of the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, with effect from May 09, 2022.”

It is issued by the Presidential Secretariat and signed by Gamini Senaratne, Secretary to the President.

(With UNI inputs)

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