Sri Lankans overseas ship {dollars} to crisis-hit nation after Rajapaksa flees

The Sri Lankan diaspora has began sending {dollars} to the island nation after Gotabaya Rajapaksa, whom they blamed for the financial disaster, fled the nation after which resigned because the president on Friday.

As #SriLankaDollarChallenge traits on Twitter, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka has requested all expats to make use of solely authorized official banking channels to ship {dollars}, as per native media stories.

In the final 24 hours, netizens have tweeted pictures of deposit slips, urging others to ship {dollars} to the island nation.

“As promised, we will continue to do our best for the motherland,” one person stated.

As promised we are going to proceed to do our greatest to the motherland #srilankadollarchallenge #GoHomeGota2022 #GoHomeRanil2022 pic.twitter.com/bOlDub5HgO

— Lakmal (@lakmalnira) July 15, 2022

Another person wrote, “Now let’s build the country together #srilankadollarchallenge”

Now let’s construct the nation collectively #srilankadollarchallenge pic.twitter.com/KbMSJn7r79

— Raveen Tharaka (@RTR_edirisinghe) July 15, 2022

“This is the new beginning! #srilankadollarchallenge,” wrote Udani Dissanayake, a regulation pupil.

This is the brand new starting! #srilankadollarchallenge https://t.co/znSlX3NH3j

— Udani Dissanayake (@UdaniNisansa) July 15, 2022

300,000 Sri Lankans making $1,000 every is an efficient quantity to point out how highly effective persons are.
Good trump to show a lesson to the voters. #SriLankaDollarChallenge

— Sid (@singintherainn) July 15, 2022

The requires “rebuilding the country” gained momentum after Gotabaya Rajapaksa despatched his resignation letter to the Speaker through e mail, making it official.

He handed over the reigns of the crisis-hit nation to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, appointing him because the appearing president till Parliament elects a brand new president.

Meanwhile, appearing President Wickremesinghe instructed the Speaker to name on social gathering leaders to call a brand new prime minister by consensus.

Parliament on July 20 will now elect a brand new president inside 30 days from one in every of its members, who will maintain the workplace for the remaining two years of the present time period.

Sri Lanka, a rustic of twenty-two million individuals, is beneath the grip of unprecedented financial turmoil, the worst in seven a long time, leaving tens of millions struggling to purchase meals, drugs, gasoline and different necessities.

Earlier, PM Wickremesinghe had introduced that the nation, with an acute overseas forex disaster that resulted in a overseas debt default, is now a bankrupt nation.

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