Ranil Wickramasinghe
By: Siva Sivapragasam
Ranil Wickramasinghe Prime Minister and Minister of Planning and Economic Development
??Lawyer D.M. Swaminathan, Minister?? of Reconstruction, Resettlement and Hindu Religious?? Affairs
A Cabinet of twenty seven Ministers, ten State Ministers and eight deputy ministers have been appointed?? by the new President Maitripala Sirisena.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the Minister of Planning and Economic Development before President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat.
Mangala Samaraweera was sworn in as the External Affairs Minister, Karu Jayasuriya as Buddha Sasana Minister, Joseph Michael Perera as Home Affairs Minister and Patali Champika Ranawaka was sworn in as Power and Energy Minister while Rajitha Senaratne was sworn in as the Health and Indigenous Medicine Minister. A Tamil Lawyer D.M. Swaminathan becomes the Minister of Resettlement, Reconstruction and Hindu Affairs.
Twenty seven Cabinet ministers in total were sworn in before the President at the Presidential Secretariat.
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List of Cabinet Minister, State Ministers and Deputy Ministers
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- Ranil Wickremesinghe – Policy Planning and Economic Development
- John Amaratunga ??? Public Security, Christian Religious Affairs and Disaster Management
- Gamini Jayawickrama Perera – Food
- Karu Jayasuriya ??? Public Administration, Democratic Rule and Buddha Sasana
- Rajitha Senaratne – Health and Indigenous Medicine
- Joseph Michael Perera – Home Affairs
- Mangala Samaraweera – Foreign Affairs
- Lakshman Kiriella – Plantation Industries
- Rauf Hakeem – Urban Development, Water Supply and Drainage
- Champika Ranawaka – Power and Energy
- Duminda Dissanayaka – Irrigation
- Mohamed Kabir Hasim – Highways and Investment Promotion
- M.K.D.S. Gunawardana – Lands
- Sajith Premadasa – Housing and Samurdhi
- Gayantha Karunatilleke – Media
- Navin Dissanayaka – Tourism
- Ravi Karunanayake – Finance
- Wijedasa Rajapakshe – Justice
- Arjuna Ranatunga – Ports and Shipping
- D.M. Swaminathan – Resettlement, Reconstruction and Hindu Religious Affairs
- Thalatha Athukorala – Foreign Employment
- Ranjith Maddumabandara ??? Internal Transport
- P. Harrison – Social Services and Welfare
- Chandrani Bandara ??? Women???s Affairs
- Rishad Bathiudeen ??? Industry and Commerce
- Akila Viraj Kariyawasam ??? Education
- P. Digambaram ??? Estate Infrastructure Development
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STATE MINISTERS
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Nandimithra Ekanayake – Culture and Arts
- P. Radakrishnan – Education
- Faizer Musthafa – Aviation
- Palitha Range Bandara – Power and Energy
- Dilip Wedaarachchi – Fisheries
- Rosy Senanayake ??? Children???s Affairs
- Rajiva Wijesinghe – Higher Education
- Ruwan Wijewardene – Defence
- K. Welayuthan – Plantation Industries
- Niroshan Perera – Youth Affairs
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DEPUTY MINISTERS
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Champika Premadasa ??? Industry and Commerce
- Harsha de Silva – Policy Planning and Economic Affairs
- Eran Wickramaratne – Highways and Investment Promotion
- Sujeewa Senasinghe – Justice
- Wasantha Senanayake – Tourism
- Wijeyakala Maheshwaran ??? Women???s Affairs
- Ajith P. Perera – Foreign Affairs
- Anoma Gamage – Irrigation
