: Sri Lankan prime minister urges citizens to end protests against government #IndiaNEWS Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday urged citizens in the country to end their protests against

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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday urged citizens in the country to end their protests against the government, reported PTI. The island nation is facing its worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948 due to shortage of foreign currency reserves.In an address to the country, the prime minister, who is the elder brother of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, said that the government is working round-the-clock to deal with the economic meltdown. He added that every minute people spend agitating on streets is depriving the country of inflow of foreign currency.Since March, thousands of people have been protesting in the capital of Colombo and other cities against the government’s handling of the economic crisis. Demonstrators had also marched towards the Presidential Secretariat on Saturday, shouting slogans calling for the president’s resignation. Some of them held placards calling the Rajapaksa family “thieves� and asking them to “go home�.The Rajapaksa family has dominated Sri Lankan politics for two decades. Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Mahinda Rajapaksa are third-generation politicians.Last week, Sri Lanka’s entire Cabinet, except Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Mahinda Rajapaksa, had resigned en masse from their positions. A new finance minister was appointed, but he too resigned less than 24 hours after he accepted the post.In his address on Monday, the first...Read more

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