Sri Lanka’s newly appointed PM Rajapaksa resigns
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Colombo: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned on Saturday, his son and a party lawmaker told Reuters, seven weeks after President Maithripala Sirisena appointed him in controversial circumstances.
His son Namal Rajapaksa, also a lawmaker, said his father would make a special statement at 0830 GMT.
‘He just signed the resignation letter in front of party members,’ Shehan Semasinghe, a legislator from Rajapaksa’s party, told Reuters.