President Appoints New Cabinet of Ministers

President Maithripala Sirisena appointed 27 Cabinet Ministers, ten State Ministers and eight Deputy Ministers at a ceremony held at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo this evening (12/01/2015).

 

They were sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena.

Cabinet Ministers

1.Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe – Minister of Economic Development & Policy Implementation
2.Ravi Karunanayake – Minister of Finance
3.Joseph Michael Perera – Minister of Home Affairs
4.John Amaratunga – Minister of Public Order, Disaster Management  & Christian Affairs

5.Duminda Dissanayake – Minister of Irrigation

6.Dr. Rajitha Senaratna – Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine
7.Kabir Hashim – Minister of Highways and Investment Promotion
8.Sajith Premadasa – Minister of Housing and Samurdhi
9.Naveen Dissanayake – Minister of Tourism
10.Wijedasa Rajapaksa – Minister of Justice
11.Arjuna Ranatunga – Minister of Ports and Shipping
12.Patali Champika Ranawaka – Minister of Power and Energy
13.Rishad Bathiudeen – Minister of Industry and Commerce
14.Gayantha Karunathilake – Minister of Mass Media
15.Palani Diganbaram – Minister of Plantation  Infrastructure Development
16.Akila Viraj Kariyawasam – Minister of Education
17.D.M. Swaminadan – Minister of Resettlement, Reconstruction and Hindu Affairs
18.Rauff Hakeem – Minister of Urban Development, Water Supply and Drainage
19.Ms.Thalatha Athukorala – Minister of Foreign Employment
20.Ranjith Madduma Bandara – Minister of Internal Transport
21.P. Harrison – Minister of Social Services and Social Welfare
22.M.K.D.S. Gunawardena – Minister of Land
23.Ms.Chandrani Bandara – Minister of Women’s Affairs
24.Karu Jayasuriya – Minister of Buddha Sasana
25.Lakshman Kiriella – Minister of Plantation
26.Mangala Samaraweera – Minister of Foreign Affairs
27.Gamini Jayawickrama Perera – Minister of Food Security

 Ministers of State

1.Nandimithra Ekanayake-  Culture and the Arts
2.V. Radhakrishnan- Education
3.Faizer Mustapha- Aviation
4.Palitha Range Bandara-  Power and Energy
5.Dilip Wedaarachchi-  Fisheries
6.Ms.Bernadeen Rose Senanayake- Children’s Affairs

7.Rajiva Wijesinghe- Higher Education

8.Ruwan Wijewardene-  Defence

9.K. Velayudhan-  Plantation Industries

10.Niroshan Perera –  Youth Affairs

 

Deputy Ministers

 

1.Champika Premadasa-  Industry and Commerce
2.Harsha de Silva- Policy Development & Economic Affairs
3.Eran Wickramaratne-  Highways and Investment Promotion
4.Sujeewa Senasinghe –  Justice
5.Wasantha Senanayake-  Tourism
6.Ms.Vijayakala Maheswaran-  Women’s Affairs
7.Ajith P. Perera-  Foreign Affairs
8.Anoma Gamage-  Irrigation

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