Gotabaya Rajapaksa to Release Book: “The Conspiracy to Oust Me from the Presidency”

COLOMBO (News 1st); Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a statement on Wednesday (6) announced that From the time he was elected President in November 2019, certain foreign and local parties were intent on removing me from power. 

In the statement, he announced the publication of his book titled “The conspiracy to oust me from the Presidency”. 

Rajapaksa said that today, foreign intervention and the manipulation of internal politics has become a fact of life in Sri Lanka in a manner never experienced in the first sixty years of independence of this country.

He said that the political campaign to oust him brought in a new element into the politics of Sri Lanka which has since independence experienced only peaceful transfers of power following elections. 

Rajapaksa said that, as such, the events of 2022 are fraught with serious implications for the future of this country. 

He said what the book explains is the first-hand experience of an internationally sponsored regime change operation.