The stay broadcast of Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s swearing-in ceremony was disrupted as a result of energy outage within the Parliament complicated. The matter will probably be probed by the Criminal Investigations Department.
Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Thursday sworn in as Sri Lanka’s eighth president (Photo: ANI)
An influence outage within the Sri Lankan Parliament complicated stopped the stay broadcast of President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s swearing-in ceremony, forcing authorities to launch an investigation by the Criminal Investigations Department into the incident, a media report stated on Thursday.
Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Thursday sworn in as Sri Lanka’s eighth president and can face the robust process of main the nation out of its unprecedented financial disaster and restoring order after months of mass anti-government protests.
Wickremesinghe, 73, was sworn in because the eighth Executive President of Sri Lanka on the Parliament complicated earlier than Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya.
The Criminal Investigations Department will examine the ability outage that befell on Thursday within the Parliament complicated when the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected President Wickremesinghe was continuing, the Colombo Page internet portal reported.
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The swearing-in ceremony of Wickramasinghe because the eighth Executive President was scheduled to be telecast stay by state-run Rupavahini and broadcast concurrently by different tv channels.
However, the stay broadcast stopped after the President entered the Parliament complicated on the crimson carpet, the report added.
It was later reported that the stay broadcast was stopped as a result of an influence outage within the Parliament complicated.
In the occasion of an influence outage within the Parliament complicated, the mills are often switched on robotically inside two minutes and it’s reported that the ability was out for about 10 minutes on the time of the swearing-in of the President.
Due to this purpose, TV channels couldn’t telecast the swearing-in ceremony.
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