{"id":178055,"date":"2017-05-29T13:35:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T08:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=178055"},"modified":"2017-06-05T01:05:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:35:26","slug":"ranil-leaves-country-amidst-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ranil-leaves-country-amidst-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil Leaves Country Amidst Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the country plunged into chaos following last week\u2019s torrential rains which left scores dead, injured, missing and displaced, Prime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Minister+Ranil+Wickremesinghe\">Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/a> left to the US on a private tour.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_167367\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ranil-W.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167367\" class=\"size-full wp-image-167367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ranil-W.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ranil-W.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ranil-W-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-167367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A source from his office told the Colombo Telegraph that Wickremesinghe in fact left the country for medical reasons. \u201cHe has been postponing this trip for a while, but was compelled to go to seek medical attention,\u201d he said. But an angry member of the general public who had heard of Wickremesinghe\u2019s departure to the US criticized the Prime Minister for his insensitiveness to the current situation. \u201cHis government has failed to address our growing problems, and even though they had a year\u2019s time, they were still unprepared when the floods happened this year too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, both the President and Prime Minister are regularly overseas on official tours, and the little they are in the country, they decide to go on private tours. \u201cIt may be a medical issue, but if he had his priorities right, then he could have always postponed the trip by a few days, and sorted out the mess in Sri Lanka first. He was elected for a reason and his country and the people should be his priority,\u201d he said angrily.<\/p>\n<p>Disaster Management Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa is also reportedly in Mexico at an international event.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Disaster Management Centre said that as of today morning, the total number of deaths had increased to 164, while at least 104 people continued to be missing, and over 471,000 people in total had been affected by the floods and landslides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":112253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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