Colombo: As many as 35 state Ministers and three Deputy Ministers were sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat on Wednesday.
The development came a week after a 16-member Cabinet was appointed by the Sri Lankan President, The Sunday Times reported.
The new set of ministers will function till the next parliamentary election.
The newly-appointed ministers are as follows:
State Ministers
Chamal Rajapaksa – State Minister of Defence
S.B. Dissanayake – State Minister of Lands and Land Development
John Seneviratne – State Minister of Economic Affairs and Policy Development
Arundika Fernando – State Minister of Tourism
Mahindananda Aluthgamage – State Minister of Power
Susil Premajantha – State Minister of Foreign Affairs
Vasudeva Nanayakkara – State Minister of Water Supply
Gamini Lokuge – State Minister of Urban Development
Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena – State Minister of Irrigation and Rural Development
Mahinda Samarasinghe – State Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs
C.B. Ratnayake – State Minister of Railways
Dilum Amunugama – State Minister of Transport
Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena – State Minister of Information and Communication
Susantha Punchinilame – State Minister of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises Development
Anura Priyadarshana Yapa – State Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Welfare
Priyankara Jayaratne – State Minister of Indigenous Medicine
Ranjith Siyambalapitiya – State Minister of Education
Duminda Dissanayake – State Minister of Youth Affairs
Rohitha Abeygunawardena – State Minister of Energy
Dayasiri Jayasekara – State Minister of Industries
Lasantha Alagiyawanna – State Minister of Public Administration
Keheliya Rambukwella – State Minister of Investment Promotion
Thilanga Sumathipala – State Minister of Technology and Innovation
Mohan Priyadarshana de Silva – State Minister of Human Rights and Legal Reforms
Vijitha Berugoda – State Minister of Women and Child Affairs
Wimalaweera Dissanayaka – State Minister of Wildlife Resources
Jayantha Samaraweera – State Minister of Environment
Sanath Nishantha Perera – State Minister of Fisheries and Fisheries Industries
Tharaka Balasuriya – State Minister of Community Empowerment
Roshan Ranasinghe – State Minister of Mahaweli Development
Janaka Wakkumbura – State Minister of Export Agriculture
Vidura Wickremanayake – State Minister of Agriculture
Shehan Semasinghe – State Minister of Development Banks and Loans
Kanaka Herath – State Minister of Ports
Lohan Ratwatte – State Minister of Highways
Deputy Ministers
Indika Anuruddha – Deputy Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government
Nimal Lanza – Deputy Minister of Community Empowerment and Estate Infrastructure Development
Kanchana Wijesekera – Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
