COLOMBO (Reuters) – Leaders of the protest motion in Sri Lanka who’ve compelled the president and prime minister out of their official residences mentioned on Sunday they will occupy the buildings until the 2 quit workplace.
“The president has to resign, the prime minister has to resign and the federal government has to go,” mentioned playwright Ruwanthie de Chickera at a information convention on the protest web site, flanked by different leaders serving to coordinate the motion towards the federal government.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe plan to step down, the nation’s parliamentary speaker mentioned on Saturday, bowing to intense stress after a day of protests wherein demonstrators stormed the president’s official residence and set hearth to the prime minister’s house in Colombo.
(Reporting by Uditha Jayaeshinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)
