Pak Sahafat – According to the claim of Singapore’s Straits Times, President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left his country for Singapore on a Saudi plane.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency’s report on Friday, quoting this Asian media, the president of Sri Lanka arrived in Singapore on a Boeing 787 flight of the Saudi Arabian Airlines.
According to Sri Lankan officials, Rajapaksa will submit his resignation letter to Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yappa Abhiwardena upon his arrival in Singapore.
A Sri Lankan official said that Rajapaksa is now in the Maldives and plans to travel to Singapore, and that the country will grant Rajapaksa asylum.
Rajapaksa, who left Sri Lanka after a massive uprising, appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as interim president.
But the Sri Lankan protesters protested the appointment of the prime minister of this country as the interim president and seized the prime minister’s building and the state television.
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Sri Lankan protesters demanded the resignation of Wickreme singhe and said that if he is elected as the next president, the current situation will not change in any way and that all these protests were futile and useless.
In recent months, this country of 22 million people has faced the worst economic crisis in the last 70 years, which turned into massive public protests.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 73, fled his official residence in Colombo just before tens of thousands of protesters took over it on Saturday and intended to fly to Dubai, but Colombo airport officials refused to let him into the airport’s VIP section and they refused to register the exit stamp on his passport, while he insisted not to pass through public centers for fear of retaliatory measures from the citizens present at the airport.
Recently, Sri Lanka has not been able to pay for fuel and other essential items; this has led to anti-government protests. Lack of fuel to run power plants have in turn led to daily power outages. Schools have also been closed and civil servants have been asked to work from home.
The government is negotiating with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to receive a financial aid package.
Protesters consider Rajapaksa’s political family to be responsible for this crisis. One of Rajapaksa’s brothers, Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned as Prime Minister in May.