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A person can be named a saint only after the completion of 5 years since one's sacrifice.
Wickremesinghe is under pressure to quit before the expected resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is said to be flying from the Maldives to Singapore.
Wickremesinghe, who served as the country's prime minister four times, was in October 2018 fired from the prime minister post by then-President Maithripala Sirisena. He was reinstated two months later.
MP Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, who was backed by the ruling coalition led by President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, was re-elected as the Deputy Speaker.
In response, the embattled president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has extended an invitation to form an all-party government to address the unprecedented economic crisis in the island nation.
In a gazette issued late on Tuesday, Rajapaksa revoked the emergency rule ordinance that went into effect last Friday.
The 225-member Parliament will convene on Tuesday in its first session since a state of emergency was declared by President Rajapaksa last week.
Nine suicide bombers linked to ISIS carried out a series of blasts that tore through three churches and as many luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, killing 258 people, including 11 Indians, and injuring over 500 on Easter Sunday on April 21, 2019.
The party led by the prime minister won all but 4 of the 22 electoral districts on offer. The victory margins in the south, dominated by the majority Sinhala community, were in the high 60 per cent mark in most areas.
The election, originally scheduled for April 25, was put off until June 20 as the COVID-19 outbreak hampered the preparations. The August 5 date was later fixed as the health authorities issued guidelines on holding the poll.