The Fifty Two Day Saga

A chronicle of the unprecedented political crisis that gripped Sri Lanka from October 26, 2018, when President Maithripala Sirisena dismissed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and appointed Mahinda Rajapaksa in his stead. This fifty-two-day period saw the nation brought to a standstill as the power struggle unfolded. The account documents a pivotal moment in modern Sri Lankan political history and the constitutional turmoil that ensued.