'Blatantly false and utterly baseless': India denies studies of sending troops to financial crisis-hit Sri Lanka -

‘We condemn such irresponsible reporting and anticipate the involved to desist from spreading rumours,’ the Indian High Commission mentioned

A pedestrian walks previous Special Task Force (STF) and police personnel standing on guard alongside a road in Colombo on 2 April, 2022. (AFP)

India on Saturday “strongly” denied studies that it’s sending troops to financial crisis-hit Sri Lanka.

Taking to Twitter, the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka known as the studies in a bit of the media “blatantly false and completely baseless.”

“We condemn such irresponsible reporting and expect the concerned to desist from spreading rumours,” the Indian High Commission added.

High Commission strongly denies blatantly false and utterly baseless studies in a bit of media that India is dispatching its troopers to Sri Lanka. The High Commission additionally condemns such irresponsible reporting and expects the involved to desist from spreading rumours.
— India in Sri Lanka (@IndiainSL) April 2, 2022

India had stationed its peacekeeping troops within the nation from 1987 to 1990. This was in the course of the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009).

Meanwhile, Sri Lanka on Saturday imposed a 36-hour curfew. The order got here a day after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa invoked a state of emergency following a violent try to storm his home, saying it was for the “protection of public order”. The nation has deployed troops to quell protests towards the federal government.

India sends help to Sri Lanka

India has been dispatching help to neighbouring Sri Lanka. On Saturday, the island nation obtained 40,000 MT of gas from the Indian Oil Corporation.

“40,000 MT of Gasoil arriving from Indian Oil Corporation, India being received today by Hon’ble Minister of Energy, Sri Lanka in the presence of H. E. High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Chairman Sri Lanka Port Authority & Managing Director Lanka IOC”. #Indianoil #Lankaioc pic.twitter.com/3yXPv4IlG2 — Lanka IOC PLC (@LankaIOCPLC) April 2, 2022

This got here a day after Indian Oil Corporation PLC equipped 6,000 MT of gas to the Ceylon Electricity Board.

Sri Lanka on Thursday mentioned it was shutting off its road lights because the disaster triggered 13-hour a day energy cuts.

India has additionally dispatched 40,000 tonnes of rice to the nation. Earlier, Sri Lanka secured a credit score line from India, Reuters reported.

The financial disaster

The authorities has been unable to pay for gas imports as a consequence of a scarcity of international change reserves.

The South Asian nation of 22 million is dealing with extreme shortages of necessities, sharp value rises, and crippling energy cuts in its most painful downturn since independence from Britain in 1948.

The coronavirus pandemic torpedoed tourism and remittances, each very important to the financial system, and authorities imposed a broad import ban in an try to avoid wasting international foreign money.

Many economists additionally say the disaster has been exacerbated by authorities mismanagement, years of amassed borrowing, and ill-advised tax cuts.

With inputs from companies

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