{"id":1418987,"date":"2022-04-05T00:14:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T04:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418987"},"modified":"2022-04-05T00:14:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T04:14:46","slug":"sri-lanka-cabinet-resigns-en-masse-after-food-and-fuel-shortages-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sri-lanka-cabinet-resigns-en-masse-after-food-and-fuel-shortages-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: Cabinet Resigns en Masse After Food and Fuel Shortages, Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsri-lanka-cabinet-resigns-en-masse-after-food-and-fuel-shortages-protests%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418987&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Almost all of the Sri Lankan government\u2019s Cabinet \u2014 apart from the nation\u2019s president and prime minister \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/south-asia\/sri-lanka-cabinet-resigns-after-protesters-defy-curfew\">resigned<\/a> from their posts on Sunday amid Sri Lanka\u2019s worsening economic crisis, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll 26 ministers in the Cabinet aside from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his elder brother Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa submitted letters of resignation at a late-night meeting,\u201d Sri Lanka Education Minister Dinesh Gunawardena told reporters on April 3.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s Cabinet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/81604\/sri-lankas-entire-cabinet-resigns\">reshuffle<\/a> cleared the way for Sri Lanka\u2019s president to appoint new Cabinet ministers on Monday or simply reappoint established members to new positions. Al Jazeera reported on April 4 of the changes made by Rajapaksa to Sri Lanka\u2019s Cabinet in the wake of Sunday\u2019s mass resignation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/4\/4\/sri-lankan-opposition-rejects-presidents-unity-government-offer\">writing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Two other Rajapaksa brothers, Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa and Irrigation Minister Chamal Rajapaksa, were among those who resigned, along with the prime minister\u2019s son, Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa. \u2026<\/p>\n[T]he president has already reappointed four of the outgoing ministers \u2013 three of them to their old jobs \u2013 while replacing brother Basil Rajapaksa as finance minister with the previous justice chief. Previous ministers of foreign affairs, education and highways kept their positions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A mob of hundreds of anti-government protesters attempted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/04\/01\/sri-lanka-mob-storms-presidents-house-country-runs-out-food-gasoline\/\">storm<\/a> President Rajapaksa\u2019s residence in the national capital, Colombo, on March 31. The incident spurred Sri Lanka\u2019s government to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/4\/1\/sri-lanka-declares-state-of-emergency-as-protests-spread\">enact<\/a> a state of emergency on the small island nation, located off India\u2019s southeasternmost coast, on April 1. Sri Lanka\u2019s government bolstered the state of emergency order on April 2 when it further imposed a 36-hour curfew on Sri Lankans amid the threat of additional protests.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/22\/sri-lanka-deploys-troops-fuel-shortage-prompts-alleged-murders\/\">gathered<\/a> for weeks across Sri Lanka to denounce the role of the nation\u2019s government in Sri Lanka\u2019s spiraling financial crisis. Sri Lankans have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/22\/sri-lanka-deploys-troops-fuel-shortage-prompts-alleged-murders\/\">suffered<\/a> from severe food, fuel, and medicine shortages since at least early March, after the island nation essentially ran out of foreign currency reserves to pay for imported essential goods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the beginning of March, the Sri Lankan rupee has fallen by almost 45% against the US dollar and its foreign exchange reserves have fallen to crisis levels,\u201d Sky News <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/sri-lanka-faces-worst-ever-economic-crisis-triggering-food-and-fuel-shortages-and-protests-12577375\">observed<\/a> on March 29.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka relies almost completely upon the island\u2019s tourism sector and remittances from Sri Lankan workers abroad to fuel its import-heavy economy. The Chinese coronavirus pandemic has negatively impacted these two sources of foreign income and left Sri Lankan traders with a deficit of foreign currency. Unable to pay for imports, Sri Lanka has buckled under extreme levels of shortages that have subsequently frustrated the island\u2019s populace of roughly 22 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost all of the Sri Lankan government\u2019s Cabinet \u2014 apart from the nation\u2019s president and prime minister \u2014 resigned from their posts on Sunday amid Sri Lanka\u2019s worsening economic crisis,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}