{"id":66432,"date":"2019-11-21T23:35:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T04:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66432"},"modified":"2019-11-22T02:44:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T07:44:22","slug":"new-prime-minister-mahinda-rajapaksa-takes-charge-of-several-portfolios-including-finance-buddhist-affairs-urban-and-housing-development-in-interim-cabinet-foreign-minister-dinesh-gunawardene-cham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66432","title":{"rendered":"New Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa Takes Charge of Several Portfolios Including Finance, Buddhist Affairs, Urban and Housing Development in Interim Cabinet; Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardene, Chamal Rajapaksa Agriculture and Mahaweli Minister; Nimal Siripala de Silva – Justice and Human Rights Minister;Arumugan Thondaman – Estate Infrastructure Minister; Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda."},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifteen ministers were sworn in before President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa this morning at the Presidential Secretariat.<\/strong>
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\nPrime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/strong> sworn in as the Minister of Defense, Public Security, Law and Order, Finance, Economic Affairs, Policy Development, Buddha Sasana, Cultural, Water Supply and Urban Development.<\/p>\n

The other ministers who were sworn in as ministers include:<\/p>\n

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Chamal Rajapaksa<\/strong> – Mahaweli & Agriculture, Trade<\/p>\n

Dulles Alahapperuma <\/strong>– Education, Sports & Youth affairs<\/p>\n

Douglas Devananda <\/strong>– Fisheries & Aquatic Resources<\/p>\n

Pavithra Wanniarachchi<\/strong> – Health & Women affairs<\/p>\n

Bandula Gunawardena <\/strong>– Higher Education<\/p>\n

Nimal Siripala de Silva<\/strong>– Justice, Human Rights & Legal Reforms<\/p>\n

Arumugan Thondaman<\/strong> -Community Empowerment & Estate Infrastructure<\/p>\n

Dinesh Gunawardene<\/strong>-Foreign Affairs, Skills & Labour Development<\/p>\n

Janaka Bandara Tennekoon<\/strong> – Public administration, Internal affairs, Provincial & local government<\/p>\n

Wimal Weerawansa: <\/strong>Small and medium scale enterprises and entrepreneur development, Industries and supply management<\/p>\n

Mahinda Amaraweera:<\/strong> Public Transport Management, Power and Energy<\/p>\n

S.M. Chandrasena:<\/strong> Environment, Wildlife Resources, Land and Land Development<\/p>\n

Johnston Fernando:<\/strong> Road and Highways and Ports and Naval Affairs<\/p>\n

Ramesh Pathirana:<\/strong> Plantation Industries and Export Agriculture<\/p>\n

Prasanna Ranatunga:<\/strong> Industrial Export and Investment Promotion, Tourism and Aviation Services<\/p>\n

S.M. Chandrasena:<\/strong> Environment and Wildlife Resources, Lands and Lands Development<\/p>\n

Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fifteen ministers were sworn in before President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa this morning at the Presidential Secretariat. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa sworn in as the Minister of Defense, Public Security, Law and Order, Finance, Economic Affairs, Policy Development, Buddha Sasana, Cultural, Water Supply and Urban Development. The other ministers who were sworn in as ministers include:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66432"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66438,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66432\/revisions\/66438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}