Claiming that certain foreign and local parties were always intent on ousting him from power, former Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said that foreign intervention has become "more common in Sri Lanka today", News Wire reported. In a media release on Wednesday, Gotabaya announced the publication of his book titled "The conspiracy to oust me from the Presidency," and stated that it explains the first-hand experience of an internationally sponsored regime change operation. News Wire is a Sri Lanka-based media publication.

"From the time I was elected President in November 2019, certain foreign and local parties were intent on removing me from power. The entirety of my two and a half year tenure in power was spent combating the COVID-19 pandemic that swept through Sri Lanka and the whole world soon after I took office," the release quoted the former Sri Lankan President as saying. "Conspiratorial forces commenced the political campaign to oust me from the presidency at the end of March 2022 after the pandemic had been brought under control, the vaccination campaign had been concluded and just when the economy was beginning to recover," he said, according to News Wire.