Sri Lankan political crisis could lead to bloodbath, says speaker

Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday assumed charge as Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister even as defiant Ranil Wickremesinghe asserted that he still commands the majority in parliament amid warning by the Speaker that there could be “bloodbath” on the streets if the political crisis is not resolved immediately.
 
Rajapaksa assumed the duties in the prime minister's secretariat which was not used by the ousted prime minister Wickremesinghe.
 
President Maithripala Sirisena's new Cabinet was also sworn in and Rajapaksa was named the new minister of finance and economic affairs.