Sri Lankan ministers offer to resign as protests grow over economic crisis

Sri Lankan students blocked a road during protests (Eranga Jayawardena/AP)

Sri Lanka’s sports minister and the president’s nephew, Namal Rajapaksa, has resigned amid growing public outrage over the country’s economic crisis and shortages of food, fuel and medicines.

The entire Sri Lankan Cabinet also handed over letters to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa offering to resign from their positions due to the economic crisis, Education Minister Dinesh Gunawardena told reporters on Sunday.