Sri Lanka's Opposition leader
Mahinda Rajapaksa is set to visit
India, his office has said. This will be Rajapaksa's first overseas tour since being appointed as the Leader of the Opposition last month.
He will leave Friday on an official tour to India, his office said.
Rajapaksa is to deliver a lecture on Sri Lanka-India relations in Bangalore, it said.
His will be his second visit to India within 6 months. In September, he visited New Delhi and met with Prime Minister
Narendra Modi.
Rajapaksa was controversially appointed the prime minister by President
Maithripala Sirisena late October, triggering an unprecedented constitutional crisis which lasted for over 50 days. The Supreme Court later restored of
Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister.