This comes after Mahinda Rajapakse resigned on Saturday as Prime Minister after he was appointed the PM by Sirisena following Wickremesinghe's dismissal on October 26.
Sirisena sparked the two-week-old drama last month by sacking Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister and naming Mahinda Rajapakse as his replacement.
The president’s United People’s Freedom Alliance party had earlier Friday quit the coalition that had governed with Wickremesinghe’s party.
Sri Lankan police today arrested the legislator son of a former president for leading violent anti-India demonstrations over alleged plans…
