COLOMBO: Speaker of Sri Lanka's Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena in a telephone call to an India media agency said that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has not left the country, adding that "I made a mistake in the (BBC) interview".
He earlier told the BBC that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left the island nation and is in a nearby country and that he will return to the country by Wednesday, the Daily Mirror reported.