Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickramasinghe has been arrested. Wickramasinghe, who has also been the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka six times, has been detained by the Criminal Investigation Department (22 August) today (22 August). Wickremesinghe took over as the acting President of Sri Lanka after Gotbaya Rajapaksa left the country with his wife and security officials after massive protests in 2022. Wickremesinghe, who was later elected as the President of Sri Lanka, quit the post in September 2024. After him, Anuraya Kumar Dol Desanayake took over. Wickramasinghe has been active in politics for decades. He is the head of the country’s oldest political party United National Party (UNP).
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What is the whole matter
On Wickramasinghe, his wife Prof. It is accused of using government money to attend the convocation of friendship. It states that he was returning from the US after the official program and moved to Britain at government expense to attend his wife’s program. It is also alleged that 23 foreign trips during the tenure. Wickramasinghe took over the presidency for two years of Gotbaya Rajapaksa for two years in late 2022. Lawyer -turned -leader was a five -decade MP. In 1977, at the age of 28, he was elected to Parliament for the first time. Completed six term as Prime Minister at different times. Wickremesinghe, nephew of the first Executive President Junius Jayawardene, was first appointed Prime Minister from 1993 to 1994 after the assassination of President Ranasinghe Premadasa.
Three times stable and overcome crisis
1993: After the murder of the then President R. Premadasa, he took over. The country was prevented from going into chaos.
2000: When the country was facing the first recession, the role in restoring development and stability.
2022: He took the leadership at the peak of Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis and saved from collapse.
YouTuber had predicted, the same happened…
Politics in Sri Lanka has started with the arrest of Wickramasinghe. Samagi Jana Balvegaya leader Sajith Premadasa said that a YouTuber had already told about the arrest of the former President. The arrest was planned, so it is a sad day when law and order has been converted into a poor drama.