The ferry has a capacity to carry 150 passengers and a dozen crew members and on Saturday, it embarked its journey with 50 passengers and 12 crew members.

Several political leaders including Seeman, who has been claiming that he had a close proximity with Prabhakaran, have been rebutting Nedumaran's not-new claim. 

Nedumaran has been courting controversies. Looking back at the history, this is not the first time that he had made such claim.

Ranil Wickremesinghe got 134 votes; Dullas Alahapperuma got 82 votes; Anura Kumara Dissanayake got 3 votes. . Earlier, the protesters also took over and demolished his private residence, as he is now in the state of reviving the trust of Srilankan people and stablilize the country in all economic and essential needs. 

To stabilize the fallen country, the nominations were made on Tuesday to elect the new president of Srilanka in Parliament. 

The political parties have decided to form an all-party government and elect a new president on July 20 to prevent the country from falling further into anarchy.

Sri Lanka's cricket icon Sanath Jayasuriya has backed the protests and said, “I am a part of the protest and stand with people’s demand…this protest has been going on for over three months." 

Default is a weakening economic state that occurs when the governments are unable to meet some or all of their debt payments to creditors.

In a televised address to the nation on Monday - May 16, Wickremesinghe has said that his administration plans to privatize Sri Lankan Airlines.

Following his address, Gotabaya had held talks with Wickremesinghe which hinted that the latter would become the new Prime Minister.