Sri Lanka: Maithripala Sirisena congratulates Gotabaya Rajapaksa on his 'historic' victory

current president of Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena congratulated Gotabaya Rajapaksa on his “historic” victory in Sri Lankan presidential elections. As per media reports,  country's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe also congratulated President-elect on his victory. Ranil Wickremesinghe was quoted saying, Premier said y value democracy and a decision will be me on next Parliamentary elections after discussing it with Speaker, party leers and government Members of Parliament.  greetings came after Sri Lanka’s Elections Chief Mahinda Deshapriya on Sunday afteron confirmed that opposition candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa h won presidential elections. 

PM Modi wishes Gotabaya Rajapaksa 

Amongst first leers to wish Gotabaya Rajapaksa was PM Modi. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter and said that he was looking forward to working with Rajapaksa. Apart from this, PM Modi hailed people of Sri Lanka on having successful conduct during elections.  

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Gotabaya Rajapaksa 

Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s list of credentials includes crushing Tamil Tigers 10 years ago. During se elections, he focused his campaign on being  defence secretary at time of  26-year civil war. revamping of Premasa's UNP ecomic policies, during its five-year charge of parliament, was also a central me in Rajapaksa’s campaign. Rajapaksa, a former defence secretary and bror of two-time former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, based his campaign on providing strong leership on national security issues, following coordinated bombings in April that killed at least 269 people. He will be sworn in as President, on Monday, vember 18.  

(With ANI Inputs)

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