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Ranil Wickremesinghe assumed office as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka for the sixth time on Friday even as Opposition parties SJP and JVP announced that they will not extend any support to him as his appointment has been made with "zero regard" to the voice of the people.
The 73-year-old United National Party (UNP) leader took over as Sri Lanka's 26th prime minister on Thursday as the country was without a government since Monday when President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's elder brother and prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned after violence erupted following an attack on the anti-government protesters by his supporters. The attack triggered widespread violence against Rajapaksa loyalists, leaving nine people dead and wounding over 200 others.
Wickremesinghe had been sworn in as the prime minister of Sri Lanka on five occasions before. He was first appointed as the prime minister from 1993 1994 after the assassination of then President Ranasinghe Premadasa.
This story is from the May 14, 2022 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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