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Sri Lanka’s Energy Minister, Kumara Jayakody, resigned from his presumption connected Friday (April 17, 2026) amid mounting absorption implicit superior allegations of corruption and substandard ember procurement. This resignation came arsenic President Anura Kumara Dissanayake appointed a committee to probe irregularities successful ember imports to Sri Lanka.
A connection from the President’s bureau said the Minister, on with the Secretary to the Ministry, resigned to “facilitate an impartial and autarkic probe to beryllium conducted by the Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry”.
