Colombo : Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa late Tuesday revoked the Emergency Rule Ordinance, which came into force on April 1, even as the government called off protests amid the country’s worst economic crisis in decades. struggled to stop.
Rajapaksa said in a gazette notification that the Emergency Rules Ordinance would be repealed from midnight on April 5.
Rajapaksa on Monday dissolved his cabinet and sought to form a unity government as public unrest grew over his handling of the economic crisis, which led to food and fuel shortages and prolonged power cuts.
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