#GotaGoHome developments in Maldives as Sri Lankan President flees nation amid disaster

As Sri Lankans stage large protests following the flight of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to the Maldives, Maldivians started trending #GotaGoHome on Twitter on Wednesday.

“Gota Go Home” is the rallying cry of the anti-government demonstrations in Sri Lanka. If the development is something to go by, many within the Maldives are standing in solidarity with their neighbours throughout the pond and demanding that the Sri Lankan president be despatched again to his nation publish haste.

According to native media reviews, Maldivians and Sri Lankan expatriates are protesting close to the Maldives President’s dwelling, urging authorities to expel Gotabaya Rajapaksa from the island nation.

On Saturday, Rajapaksa had introduced that he would step down on Wednesday amid mass scale protests in opposition to him that noticed protesters storming the presidential palace and different key authorities establishments over the weekend. However, hours earlier than he was attributable to hand in his resignation, the 71-year-old fled Sri Lanka for the Maldives, alongside along with his spouse and two bodyguards.

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Anger over President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s flight introduced Sri Lankans again out on the streets. Thousands of protesters demanding that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe additionally step down rallied exterior his workplace compound. The protests took a violent flip as individuals broke barricades and scaled partitions, prompting safety personnel to lob tear gasoline shells and resort to baton cost to disperse the crowds.

As the protests escalated exterior the prime minister’s workplace, Ranil Wickremesinghe, now the appearing president, imposed a state of emergency that offers broader powers to the navy and police, and declared a right away curfew within the western province that features Colombo.

Sri Lanka, a rustic of twenty-two million individuals, is beneath the grip of an unprecedented financial turmoil, the worst in seven many years, leaving thousands and thousands struggling to purchase meals, drugs, gasoline and different necessities. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe final week stated Sri Lanka is now a bankrupt nation.

(With inputs from Agencies)

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