SRI LANKA PRESIDENT GOTABAYA RAJAPAKSA SUBMITS RESIGNATION TO SPEAKER

(The Quiver): On late Thursday, Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa submitted his resignation letter to the Parliament Speaker through email , as reported by news agency Reuters.

Rajapaksa landed in Singapore on Thursday amid mass protests in his country over economic breakdown , as troops patrolled the commercial capital Colombo to enforce a curfew.

A person familiar with the situation told, ajapaksa had fled to the Maldives on Wednesday to escape a popular uprising over his family’s role in a crippling economic crisis, headed on to Singapore on a Saudi Arabian airline flight.
According to a source, Gotabaya is expected to stay in Singapore for some time.He might later move to the UAE .

While Singapore foreign ministry in a statement, has ruled out talk of asylum for Rajapaksa. The ministry said the Lankan president had entered the city-state for a private visit. “He has not asked for asylum and neither has he been granted any asylum. Singapore generally does not grant requests for asylum,” the ministry stressed.