COLOMBO: Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday agreed to remove brother as prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa amid worst economic crisis in the country.
Sri Lanka is facing one of its worst economic crises resulting in widespread protests against the Rajapaksa family leaders, including President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and PM Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Huge piles of foreign debt, series of lockdowns, soaring inflation, shortage in fuel supply, fall in foreign currency reserves and devaluation of currency has adversely impacted the country’s economic growth.