Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the former president of Sri Lanka, says “foreign and local parties” are to blame for his removal

international meddling has grown “more common in Sri Lanka today,” according to former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who said that some international and local groups were always set on removing him from office, as reported by News Wire. Gotabaya announced the release of his book, “The conspiracy to oust me from the Presidency,” in a media release on Wednesday. He said that the book provides an in-depth account of his personal experiences during a globally supported regime change operation. News Wire is a media outlet headquartered in Sri Lanka.

“Some foreign and local parties have been trying to unseat me since I was elected president in November of 2019.” The statement reported the former president of Sri Lanka as stating, “It took me two and a half years to come to terms with the COVID-19 epidemic that ravaged the whole planet shortly after I assumed office. “Conspiratorial forces commenced the political campaign to oust me from the presidency at the end of March 2022 after the pandemic had been brought under control, the vaccination campaign had been concluded and just when the economy was beginning to recover,” he told News Wire.

Gotabaya claims that foreign involvement and interfering in internal matters are “more common in Sri Lanka today” than they were in the country’s first sixty years of independence. “Sri Lankan politics, which have always seen peaceful handovers of power after elections since independence, saw a new dimension with the effort to remove me from office. Therefore, the events of 2022 will have a significant impact on this nation’s future. The first-hand account of an internationally backed regime change operation is what this book describes,” said Gotabaya.

As irate demonstrations were stoked by Sri Lanka’s economic woes, the former leader left the nation. Protesters rushed Rajapaksa’s office and apartment, infuriated by a crippling economic situation, and he resigned. Early on July 13, 2022, in the morning, Rajapaksa left Sri Lanka. Once in Singapore, where he was given a 14-day visitation permit, he announced his resignation as president. He had escaped via the Maldives to Singapore. Following his time in Singapore, he took refuge in Thailand. Gotabaya left the nation in July 2022 and returned to Sri Lanka in September 2022.