Huge Protest is being underway in front of the Official residence of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakshe at Wijerama Road ,Colombo -07 since this evening (05) .
A large number of Police personal are being deployed to provide security to the official residence of Premier it has been reported ,The protesters including many University students are shouting slogans against the Premier and government according to reports .
Hundreds of Thousands of people had today (04) protested Island wide against President Gotabahya Rajapakshe and present Government demanding the rulers to go home and pave the way to elect a new government .
Protesters held protests in Colombo ,Kandy ,Polonnaruwa ,Anuradhapura ,Kegalle and many other areas today and even raided the houses of former Government Ministers including Pavithra Wanniarachhi ,Roshan Ranasinghe ,Chamal Rajapakshe, Shasheendra Rajapakshe,Nimal Lansa ,Gamini Lokuge ,Rohitha Abeygunawardane ,Ramesh Pathirana and Roshan Ranasinghe as well as Prime Minsiter Mahinda Rajapakshe .
Protesters had stormed in to the residence of state Minister Roshan Ranasinghe in Polonnaruwa and destroyed furniture and other goods in the house it has been revealed .Police had fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse many of these protests .
Meanwhile Sri Lankans in foreign countries too staged protest campaigns requesting government including President to step down immediately ..
A tense situation occurred among public today (04) after the President Gotabhaya Rajapakshe had Appointed four members of the previous Cabinet which resigned yesterday (03) amidst public anger over present government to the New Cabinet he had named today .
President Rajapakshe had appointed members of the previous Cabinet Dinesh Gunwardane ,Johnston Fernando ,Professor G.L Pieris and Ali Sabri as Ministers of Education ,Highways ,Foreign Affairs and Finance respectively .
Although President Rajapaskhe had requested all parties to join the Cabinet in view of solving the present economic crisis faced by the country ,Main Opposition Samgi Janabalawegaya Party as well as United National Party ,Tamil National Alliance and Janatha Wimukthi Peramuna had rejected the offer .
Meanwhile protesters who had protested against the government had stated today they want the whole government to step down and hold fresh elections under an Interim caretaker government .The family members of President Gotabahya Rajpakshe and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakshe had decided not to accept any Portfolio in new Cabinet as Public demands that there should be no Rajapakshe family member in the Cabinet .
Government is set to loose the two third majority they cuurently have in the Parliament tomorrow (05) as around 80 Parliamentarians attached to the Government have decided to function as Independent groups when the Parliament meet tomorrow .
Accordingly around 50 MP's representing t
he ruling Sri ;Lanka Progressive Front (Podujana Peramuna ) ,another 16 MP's representing allied Parties of the government and 14 Sri Lanka Freedom Party MP's attached to the Government are due to be functioned as independent groups it has been reported .
Meanwhile former Ministers Udaya Gammanpila and Wimal Weerawanshe have stated that the Government will not only loose the two third majority in the Parliament But majority of the Parliament as well .
Hundreds of Thousands of People including Civil activists ,Businessmen ,Sports personal and Artists are being currently protested in front of the Presidential Secretariat at Galle face green in Colombo against the government it has been reported ,
The protesters are demanding to dissolve the government and hold a free election to elect a new government .