A total of 37 Members of Parliament representing the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the Samagi Jana Balawegaya have been appointed as State Ministers.
State Ministers were sworn in before President Ranil Wickremesinghe this morning (September 08) at the Presidential Secretariat, the President’s Media Division said.
Following is the list of the newly appointed State Ministers:
01)Jagath Pushpakumara – Foreign Employment
02)Ranjith Siyambalapitiya – Finance
03)Lasantha Alagiyawanna – Transport
04)Dilum Amunugama – Investment Promotion
05)Kanaka Herath – Technology
06)Janaka Wakkumbura – Provincial Councils & Local Government
07)Shehan Semasinghe – Finance
08)Mohan Priyadarshana De Silva – Agriculture
09)Thenuka Vidanagamage – Urban Development and Housing
10)Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon – Security
11)Rohana Dissanayake – Sports & Youth Affairs
12)Arundhika Fernando – Urban Development and Housing
13)Vijitha Berugoda – Piriven Education
14)Lohan Ratwatte – Plantation Industries
15)Tharaka Balasuriya – External Affairs
16)Sanath Nishantha- Water Supply
17)Indika Anurudhdha – Power & Energy
18)Siripala Gamlath – Highways
19)Shantha Bandara – Media
20)Anuradha Jayaratne – Justice & Prisons Affairs
21)S. Viyalendran – Trade
22)Sisira Jayakody – Indigenous Medicine
23)Piyal Nishantha De Silva – Fisheries
24)Prasanna Ranaweera – Small & Medium Scale Industries Development
25)D. V. Chanaka – Wildlife and Forest Conservation
26)D. B. Herath – Livestock Development
27)Shasheendra Rajapaksa – Irrigation
28)Dr. Seetha Arambepola – Health
29)Cader Masthan – Rural Affairs
30)Ashoka Priyantha – Home Affairs
31)Aravind Kumar – Education
32)Geetha Kumarasinghe – Women and Child Affairs
33)Sivanesathurai Santhirakanthan – Rural Roads Development
34)Dr. Suren Raghavan – Higher Education
35)Diana Gamage – Tourism
36)Chamara Sampath Dassanayake – Primary Industries
37)Anura Paquel – Social Empowerment
