Although elections are not due in Sri Lanka until 2020, these developments have prompted Rajapaksa to press for early elections. When Prime Minister Modi was in Sri Lanka last year, I met him at the Indian High Commissioner’s residence in Colombo. But the free port and its 5000 acres would have remained under the Sri Lanka Ports Authority. How do you look at relations between Sri Lanka and China, and India’s complicated relations with Pakistan and China? Sri Lanka has always had close relations with India, China and Pakistan and these friendships will continue in the future as well.

Source: Indian Express March 23, 2018 22:30 UTC