Sajith Premadasa, the Leader of the Opposition in Sri Lanka, urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to support the island nation to the “greatest extent possible” amid the deepening economic crisis, according to news agency ANI. With depleting foreign reserves and a severe lack of fuel and food, the debt-ridden country is experiencing its worst economic crisis in decades.
“Please attempt to assist Sri Lanka to the greatest extent feasible. This is our motherland, and we must protect it “According to ANI, Premadasa stated in a message to PM Modi.
Sri Lanka, according to Premadasa, is seeking for a “pathbreaking wholesale reform” that will benefit the people rather than politicians. He claimed that politics is not a game of musical chairs in which politicians swap positions.
“First, we want resignations, and then we want a working political paradigm.” Stronger institutions, not only a change in leadership, will be the foundation of a new Sri Lanka. The Samagi Jana Balawegaya tweeted, “An interim government is nothing but internal party politics.”
Meanwhile, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka has urged opposition parties to join the unity administration in order to find a solution to the country’s crisis. Rajapaksa blamed the current predicament on “many economic and global factors” in a letter to all political parties.
