Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has cancelled Wednesday’s visit to Jaffna. A spokesman of the President has told the New Indian Express that “unscheduled meetings” in Colombo led to the cancellation.
“But he will be visiting Jaffna on January 25 or any other suitable date before that," the spokesman added.
In Jaffna he was to have inaugurated an island-wide mobile app facility to get in touch with the President and track the progress of requests through ministries and departments in the Center. He was also to release about 600 acres of private land presently held by the military.
The President may have been held back by the developing political situation in South Sri Lanka with a resurgent former President Mahinda Rajapaksa vowing to overthrow the Sirisena-Wickemesinghe coalition government in 2017.
-Agencies
