Following violent protests near Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa s house on Thursday night, 11 government-affiliated parties have urged him to immediately dissolve the Cabinet and form an interim government with the consent of all parties .
The parties, which worked to bring Rajapaksa to power and form the government in 2019, said the current cabinet cannot be continued with the economic crisis that has forced people to suffer without fuel, electricity, LP gas, medicine, milk powder and other food items.
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Sri Lanka's president sacked his energy minister on Thursday as fuel shortages left the near-bankrupt island facing its worst blackouts in 26 years and the nation's buses largely sidelined.
Udaya Gammanpila was booted from the cabinet a day after publicly criticising the government's monetary policy, saying it had worsened the dollar shortage that has slammed oil imports.
Another cabinet member who had accused Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa, a younger brother of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, of mismanagement was also sacked.