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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa may resign. The country has recently declared a state of emergency again. Protests have been going on for a long time in the country which is suffering from various crises including economic crisis. To get out of this situation, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa asked the Prime Minister to resign. But the president himself is under pressure to resign. Because from the very beginning, the common people have been protesting demanding the removal of the President from his post.

 

It is learned that Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has responded positively to the President's request. Mahinda Rajapaksa has agreed to resign as Sri Lanka's prime minister at a special cabinet meeting at the President's House, chaired by Gotabaya Rajapaksa, according to a Colombo Page report.

 

The Sri Lankan cabinet has been informed that Mahinda Rajapaksa has agreed to step down due to his failure to address the country's ongoing economic crisis.

 

Meanwhile, the country's security forces have been beefed up for the second time in five weeks by declaring a state of emergency.

 

A spokesman for the president said emergency laws had been enacted to ensure public order. Earlier, protests and strikes began amid a severe economic crisis. Schools, colleges, shops and businesses are closed. Moreover, due to the strike, the transport system also became to unusable.

 

The country's finance minister said this week that the government had about 50 million in foreign reserves in Gotabha Rajapaksa. The country's economy collapsed mainly due to the Corona epidemic and the rising oil prices.

Ravi Kumudesh, the country's trade union leader, said the president's misguided policies and actions had created such a tragic situation. So he has to resign.

 

The last presidential election in Sri Lanka was held in 2019. Gotabaya Rajapaksa proposed a reduction in tariffs ahead of the elections. The then government took it as an electoral strategy.

 

At the time, Finance Minister Mangala Samarabira had organized a briefing on the dangerous promise to reduce the value-added tax from 15 per cent to 6 per cent and abolish other tariffs.

 

The Rajapaksa family is now on the brink of collapse in the economic crisis. Eating Himshim to meet the needs of the people. Refunds are being sought from other of donors, including of the IMF, the World Bank, China and the India. In the meantime, the country has become a debt defaulter. This was the first incident after gaining independence from the British in 1947. The country's stock market is also in the deplorable state.

 

Rajapaksa's family members have held important positions in the Sri Lankan government for 12 of the last 20 years. At that time they got the badge of dictatorship. Earlier, his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa served two terms as president. Moreover, his other two brothers control the country's port and agricultural system. Thus, dozens of members of the Pakse family are holding the highest office in the government.

 

It is learned that Sri Lanka was in economic crisis even before Rajapaksa took power. Even then, the new government borrowed from China for several mega projects. Overall, the country's foreign debt doubled between 2010 and 2020.