Opposition party Samagi Jana Balawegaya Tuesday submitted no-confidence motion against PM Mahinda Rajapaksa's govt & impeachment motion against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Weekend curfew was imposed from Saturday to Monday to quell large-scale protests against govt amid an economic crisis. Opposition MPs claim govt is ‘cornered & helpless’.
Sri Lanka's forex reserves are lows & the nation is also facing a food shortage. It remains to be seen if President Rajapaksa will turn to either India or China for help.
Like in Europe, where China has built a ‘Balkan Backdoor’ to enter the European Union, it will enter South Asia from autocratic states such as Sri Lanka.
New Delhi believes that Sri Lanka has taken a firm decision on ‘completely aligning’ with China, even if that means doing away with the India balancing act.
Sri Lankan minister Godahewa says Adani Group offered to invest in West Container Terminal, a 'commercially better option', but with same equity ratio given to China at CCIT.
Sri Lanka has scrapped the East Container Terminal project. But New Delhi believes Colombo might reconsider its decision and ‘things can change any moment’.
The project was signed by India, Sri Lanka and Japan in May 2019, but it has been stalled since Sri Lanka ordered a review in July 2020. Jaishankar is on a 3-day visit to the country.
PM Modi and his Sri Lankan counterpart also discussed the need for an implementation of 13th amendment to Sri Lankan Constitution, aimed at ‘realising expectations of Tamils’.
One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.
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