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Amid mayhem and chaos in Sri Lanka, acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe instructed armed forces and police to bring the current situation under control.
‘Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe says armed forces and police instructed to bring the current situation under control,’ tweeted Daily Mirror.
As per report by ANI , As protests intensified in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, protestors who had gathered outside Sri Lanka PM’s office have taken over his residence at Flower Road in Colombo.
Security personnel today resorted to tear-gas shelling to drive away protestors on the streets of Colombo.
These reports come as the embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, escaped to the Maldives, appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the interim President of Sri Lanka.
Wickremesinghe today declared an emergency and imposed a curfew in the western province of the country as protesters came prepared to face tear gas shelling by security forces deployed outside Wickremesinghe’s residence.
Air patrolling also began around the PM’s residence.
The country’s opposition leader Sajith Premadasa said that the PM cannot exercise the powers of the President, and cannot declare a curfew or a state of emergency.
‘PM becomes acting President only if the President appoints him as such, or if the office of President is vacant, or if the CJ in consultation with the Speaker forms the view that the President is unable to act,’ Premadasa tweeted.
PM becomes acting President only if the President appoints him as such, or if the office of President is vacant, or if the CJ in consultation with the Speaker forms the view that the President is unable to act.
— Sajith Premadasa (@sajithpremadasa) July 13, 2022
‘In the absence of any of these, the PM cannot exercise the powers of President, and cannot declare curfew or a state of emergency,’ he said in another tweet.
Military personnel used tear gas shells to disperse protestors who scaled the wall to enter the Sri Lankan PM’s residence in Colombo.
