Colombo: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe announced on Saturday that he has agreed to resign after party leaders in Parliament demanded that both he and the embattled president Gotabaya Rajapaksa step down on the day protesters stormed the president’s residence and office, Khaleej Times reported.
The prime minister’s spokesman, Dinouk Colambage, said Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told party leaders that he will resign when all parties have agreed on forming a new government.
His decision to step down came after the capital Colombo witnessed the biggest protest yet as tens of thousands of people broke through barricades and entered President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence and nearby office to vent their fury against a leader they hold responsible for the nation’s worst economic crisis.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was forced to flee and has been taken to an undisclosed location. Some reports even said that he had fled the country. (UNI)
