President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s elder brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned as prime minister last month after prolonged protests against the economic crisis turned deadly.
The brother of Sri Lanka’s president and the country’s former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa said on Thursday that he had resigned from parliament, the second from the influential family to step away from government amid a severe economic crisis.
“From today I will not be involved in any government activities but I cannot and will not step away from politics,” Rajapaksa told reporters.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s elder brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned as prime minister last month after prolonged protests against the economic crisis turned deadly.
Mahinda remains a member of parliament.
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1 dead, 9 injured after driver hits pedestrians in Germany’s Berlin
The man drove into people on a street corner at around 10:30 am before getting the car back on the road and then crashing into a shop window around a block further on, police spokesman Thilo Cablitz said. Six people sustained life-threatening injuries and another three were seriously injured, fire service spokesman Adrian Wentzel. Police said more than a dozen people were injured.
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5 teens wounded in shooting at West Texas house party
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London beer prices top £8 a pint for first time, FT reports
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