The Air Force has beefed up security at the Katunayake airport since yesterday (21) evening.
It is a grim reminder of how it acted to prevent civilians from gathering near the airport to stop politicians from fleeing the country during ‘Aragalaya’.
However, several politicians have already left the country.
They include former minister Susantha Punchinilame, who departed for Chennai on board Air India flight AI-272 at 2.25 pm yesterday.
UNP’s former general secretary Palitha Range Bandara boarded Bangkok-bound FD-141 of Thai Air Asia at 11.15 pm.
Ittekande Saddatissa Thera left in Cathey-Pacific’s CX-610 flight at 12.50 am today for Hong Kong.
SLPP presidential candidate Namal Rajapaksa’s wife Limini Winoja Weerasinghe and her father Thilakasiri Weerasinghe are due to depart for France tomorrow.
