Sri Lankan PM Rajapaksa to step down amid political crisis
Sri Lanka's Mahinda Rajapaksa will resign from the post of Prime Minister on Saturday amid the political crisis in the country, his son Namal Rajapaksa announced on Twitter. Rajapaksa had replaced Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister after the latter was sacked by President Maithripala Sirisena in October. The Sri Lankan Parliament had passed two no-confidence motions against Rajapaksa.