Sri Lanka Former Prez Rajapaksa’s Letter Of Resignation To Come Today: Speaker
Colombo, July 13: Sri Lanka’s Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has announced that Gotabaya Rajapaksa will make arrangements to send his official letter of resignation on Wednesday.
The Speaker said Rajapaksa, who is out of the country, had called him and told him he would resign on Wednesday as previously promised on Saturday, the BBC reported.
Meanwhile, a second state television broadcast station has now gone off air in the island nation, the BBC reported.
The news comes less than an hour after the largest national broadcaster, Rupavahini, suspended operations after protesters entered the Prime Minister’s office. Officials say engineers shut the channel down as thousands of protesters entered the state television office.
With IANS Inputs…
