Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said he is in good health on Monday, dismissing “false propaganda” against him and asserting that his government is capable of bringing the country out of its current crisis.
The 76-year-old elder brother of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa denied claims that his health was failing and that he was being treated in hospital, saying that he had not visited a hospital in recent times even to meet a patient.
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According to the Daily News Sri Lanka, he is in good condition and that “false information” is being pushed against him on social media by “an organized organization.”
The Prime Minister’s Media Division (PMMD) stated, “The misinformation that the Prime Minister is being treated in a private hospital for an illness is entirely incorrect.”
As the anti-government Galle Face protests entered their 17th day and calls for the President and Prime Minister to resign became stronger, student demonstrators approached the Sri Lankan Prime Minister’s Residence here on Sunday.
