Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has sent his resignation letter through an email to the Parliament Speaker as protests continue in the island nation.
Rajapaksa emailed a letter of resignation to the speaker of the country`s parliament late on Thursday, two sources said. It was not immediately clear if the letter, sent shortly after Rajapaksa arrived in Singapore, would be accepted in email form, the sources added, reported Reuters.
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned amid large scale anti-government protesters with blackouts and food shortages plaguing the island nation.
The authorities deployed police to enforce a curfew after five people were killed as violence flared up amid Rajapak's resignation. Sri Lanka has been hit by a deep economic crisis which started during the pandemic as foreign remittances dried up. The country had declared last month that it would be defaulting on its $51 billion foreign debts as the IMF stepped in.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today stepped down following nationwide protests, amid an unprecedented economic crisis the nation is facing.