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Namal Rajapaksa on Current Poltical crisis in Sri Lanka

For many years, the Rajapaksa dynasty in Sri Lanka dominated the island country with an iron grip, instilling fear among political opponents, journalists, and other people they saw as threats to their authority. They are currently being driven out of their houses and out of power by demonstrators. Following months of mass demonstrations against rising costs and shortages of necessities like food and petrol, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 73, is set to step down on Wednesday. Protesters who were yelling "Gota Go Home" forced him to leave the property on Saturday after compelling him to spend the previous few days locked up at his official beachfront mansion. The turmoil revealed the public's rage against Rajapaksa, whose three-year rule has left Sri Lanka beseeching th

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‘Dummy Cars, Government On Dialysis Don’t Persist For Long’: Union Minister On Maharashtra Government Collapse

Alankrati VermaJune 27, 20220

Union Minister for Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi stated on Thursday that ‘dummy cars and a government on dialysis do not persist for very long'. He said so because of the political situation in Maharashtra, where the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government is struggling to hold on to power. Naqvi spoke with the media after casting his vote in the Rampur Lok Sabha by-election about this situation. During the talk, on a question about what will emerge in Maharashtra, he used the renowned "Mughal-e-Azam" song's famous couplet, "Jab raat hai aisi matwali to subah ka alam kya hoga." After the revolt of several Shiv Sena members, the survival of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra is in doubt. Moreover, Abbas Naqvi stated that BJP has made all necessary preparation