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Sri Lanka’s divisive ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa has conceded defeat in Monday’s parliamentary election.

“I offer my grateful thanks to all parties and individuals who worked untiringly during the election period to ensure victory for the people“, Wickremesinghe said in a statement.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe urged Sri Lanka’s parties on Wednesday to work together as he began forming a new government backed by minority Tamils after a surge in support for his reform-driven agenda in parliamentary elections.

“I am conceding. We have lost a good fight”, said former Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Voters swung behind Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s United National Party (UNP), dashing ex-strongman Mahinda Rajapakse’s hopes of a comeback after his shock defeat in January’s presidential poll.

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“Zayn’s adamant Perrie has to move her stuff out”, a source told the Daily Mirror.

However, with only one of 22 districts having declared, the shape of the next parliament remains unclear and Rajapaksa’s comments to Reuters stopped short of an outright concession.

Another added: “Lol Zayn is burning so many bridges on his road to solo fame”.

In his letter, which President Sirisena had sent in his capacity as Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), he has noted that there were several seniors in the SLFP who deserved the prime ministerial position in the event of a UPFA win.

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The house members of Uttar Pradesh assembly has paid huge glowing tributes to the former president APJ Abdul Kalam on the first day of the assembly.

The chairman of Myanmar’s ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) was removed from his post on Thursday, officials said.

Shwe Mann’s ouster from the party follows rare discord within the establishment over the role of the military, which handed power to a semi-civilian government in 2011 but retains an effective veto over the political system.