Ahead Of Vote, Sri Lanka’s Opposition Leader Makes An Appeal To PM Modi

Ahead of the great vote in Sri Lanka, where parliament will elect a new president, the opposition leader Sajith Premadasa has made a request to India to continue to support the island state regardless of who was chosen to be the top position.
Mr. Premdasa, the leader of the opposition party Sri Lanka Samagi Jana Balawegaya, tweeted last night, “Apart from who is the president of Sri Lanka tomorrow, it is my humble request and really to respect PM Shri @narendramodi, to all political parties from From the political parties from the Indian policy and Indians to continue to help Mother Lanka and people to get out of this disaster. “

Sri Lanka is in the middle of a large -scale economic crisis, with 22 million residents facing severe food and fuel deficiency, among other important things.

For months protest on the streets of the crisis forced the former President of Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign last week. Mr. Rajapaksa and his family members, many of them who were in his government, had been accused of interpreting the country’s economy, which led to this great crisis.

Analysts said the pioneer in the three -way contest was Ranil Wickremesinghe, a former prime minister six times who was the acting president after his predecessor resigned, but was hated by the protesters who saw him as the ally of Rajapaksa.

His main opponent in the voting was the SLPP dissident and former Minister of Education Dullas Alahappema, a former journalist supported by the opposition. Alahapperuma promised this week to form “the actual consensual government for the first time in our history”.

Premadasa resigned from the presidential election for the sake of Alahapperuma. He tweeted that “for the good greater than my country that I love and the people I appreciate” his party will support Dullas Alahapperuma, a former Minister of Media.