Sri Lanka appoints 37 new State Ministers

(UTV | COLOMBO) – 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.

The President’s Media Division said the swearing in ceremony took place at the Presidential Secretariat.

Full List: 

1. Jagath Pushpakumara – State Minister Foreign Employment
2. Ranjith Siyambalapitiya – State Minister of Finance
3. Lasantha Alagiyawanna – State Minister of Transport
4. Dilum Amunugama – State Minister of Investment Promotion
5. Kanaka Herath – State Minister of Technology
6. Janaka Wakkumbura – State Minister of Provincial Councils, and Local Government
7. Shehan Semasinghe – State Minister of Finance
8. Mohan Priyadarshana De Silva – State Minister of Agriculture
9. Thenuka Vidanagamage – State Minister of Urban Development and Housing
10. Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon – State Minister of Security
11. Rohana Dissanayake – State Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs
12. Arundhika Fernando – State Minister of Urban Development and Housing
13. Vijitha Berugoda – State Minister of Piriven Education
14. Lohan Ratwatte – State Minister of Plantation Industries
15. Tharaka Balasuriya – State Minister of External Affairs
16. Sanath Nishantha- State Minister of Water Supply
17. Indika Anurudhdha – State Minister of Power and Energy
18. Siripala Gamlath – State Minister of Highways
19. Shantha Bandara – State Minister of Media
20. Anuradha Jayaratne – State Minister of Justice and Prisons Affairs
21. S. Viyalendran – State Minister of Trade
22. Sisira Jayakody – State Minister of Indegenious Medicine
23. Piyal Nishantha De Silva – State Minister of Fisheries
24. Prasanna Ranaweera – State Minister of Small and Medium Scale Industries Development
25. D. V. Chanaka – State Minister of Wildlife and Forest Conservation
26. D. B. Herath – State Minister of Livestock Development
27. Shasheendra Rajapaksa – State Minister of Irrigation
28. Dr. Seetha Arambepola – State Minister of Health
29. Cader Masthan – State Minister of Rural Affairs
30. Ashoka Priyantha – State Minister of Home Affairs
31. Aravind Kumar – State Minister of Education
32. Geetha Kumarasinghe – State Minister of Women and Child Affairs
33. Sivanesathurai Santhirakanthan – State Minister of Rural Roads Development
34. Dr. Suren Raghavan – State Minister of Higher Education
35. Diana Gamage – State Minister of Tourism
36. Chamara Sampath Dassanayake – State Minister of Primary Industries
37. Anura Paquel – State Minister of Social Empowerment.