President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has issued an Extraordinary Gazette notification summoning the Sri Lanka Parliament to meet on the 20th August at 09.30 am. The gazette has been issued by the virtue of the powers vested in the President by Article 70 of the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. The President  has earlier issued a gazette summoning the Parliament on the said date, however, a particular time was not specified.