'There is fear that the president and prime minister are dragging their feet and won't resign.'
"President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa is still in the country, I made a mistake in the (BBC) interview," Speaker Abeywardena told ANI in a telephone call.
'The Rajapaksas have been in active politics for decades and survived many challenges, but they seem to have misread this one.'
'The fact that he hasn't resigned so far shows that he is going to do everything to hold onto power.'
'We should expect a cold-blooded, transactional relation that requires a lot of engagement and mutual trust to sustain,' says Constantino Xavier, Fellow, foreign policy, Brookings India.
'Will President Dissanayake calibrate his foreign policy taking into account India's immediate security concerns? We need to watch.'
'If there is a push towards a Marxist oriented government it will be dangerous.' 'We have seen this in Nepal and Myanmar and it will be a concern for India if it is surrounded by countries with such political dispensations.'
'A fragile Sri Lanka will have a serious impact on the security of India.'
Dealing with the Sirisena government in Sri Lanka, says G Ganapathy Subramaniam, is a lot easier for India than engaging with the Rajapaksa regime.
'This is a historical moment in the political history of Sri Lanka.' 'You can see the amount of pressure that is coming from the people because nobody addressed the policy blunders, multiple corruption charges and huge scandals.'
'India has given assistance that we required, otherwise we would not have been able to survive this far.'
Admiral Colombage said that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa would have an India first approach as the key to strategic security.
'The worry among many international actors is whether there will be stability to provide assistance to the government because the political developments in the last few months are a real concern.'
Both Mahinda Rajapaksa and Modi have learnt from their past mistakes. Modi has understood that Rajapaksa is a 'forever politician' that India has to live with, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'For the first time, all major countries are discovering India's indispensability to their own foreign policy interests.'
'No one in Sri Lanka could afford to stay at home, everyone came onto the street.'
'If Ranil Wickremesinghe starts repressing and suppressing the protesters who represent the people, that will pose a danger for him to continue in office.'
Rajapaksa said China indicated that it would help Sri Lanka, while adding that "usually they don't like" lending out more money to cover earlier debt payments.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa
'For the common man, the economic conditions are not going to get better.'
Kanyakumari is the tip of India and will convey the symbol that from the tip of India, the Congress is on its way up.
'Our policy is pro-Sri Lanka.' 'Burma is not the only girl on the beach in South Asia.''
Colombo seems to be veering to the middle path between China and the US on global matters, but in regional matters of strategic security, it is increasingly identifying with India, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
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