{"id":76369,"date":"2022-03-03T01:05:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=76369"},"modified":"2022-03-03T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T21:56:00","slug":"sb-dissanayake-given-wimal-weerawansa-s-industries-minister-power-minister-gamini-lokuge-replaces-udaya-gammanpila-as-energy-ministertransport-minister-pavithra-wanniarachchi-transferred-to-pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=76369","title":{"rendered":"SB Dissanayake  Given  Wimal Weerawansa s Industries Minister; Power Minister Gamini Lokuge  Replaces Udaya Gammanpila as Energy Minister;Transport Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi  Transferred to  Power Ministry while State Minister Dilum Amunugama  is Elevated as  Cabinet Minister of Transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nBY Buddhika Samaraweera<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Gotabaya Rajapaksa reshuffled the Cabinet of Ministers yesterday (3), with two Cabinet Ministers being removed, one being newly appointed, and three cabinet ministerial posts being swapped with senior members of the Government.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, Industries Minister Wimal Weerawansa and Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila, who were recently seen criticising the current Government\u2019s policies, have been removed from the said ministerial posts. <\/p>\n<p>Weerawansa has been replaced as the Industries Minister by Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Member of Parliament (MP) S.B. Dissanayake.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Gammanpila has been replaced as Energy Minister by Gamini Lokuge, who was the Power Minister, while the latter\u2019s Power portfolio has now been given to Pavithra Wanniarachchi, who earlier helmed the Transport Ministry.<\/p>\n<p> At the time of going to print, State Minister of Vehicle Regulation, Bus Transport Services and Train Compartments, and Motor Car Industry, and Community Police Services Dilum Amunugama was tipped to be appointed as the Transport Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Weerawansa and Gammanpila, who were removed by the President from their ministerial posts, were both unavailable for comment.<br \/>\nTheir removal comes after a total of 11 political parties representing the incumbent SLPP-led Government, including the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), the National Freedom Front (NFF) of which Weerawansa is the Leader, the Democratic Left Front, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, the National Congress, the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) of which Gammanpila is the Leader, the Sri Lanka People\u2019s Party, the Vijaya Dharani National Council, the People\u2019s United Front, and the Yuthukama National Organisation, launched a new national manifesto titled \u201cMulu Ratama Hari Magata\u201d (Taking the Nation on the Correct Path) on Wednesday (2).<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Morning<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton76369\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D76369&amp;text=SB%20Dissanayake%20%20Given%20%20Wimal%20Weerawansa%20s%20Industries%20Minister%3B%20Power%20Minister%20Gamini%20Lokuge%20%20Replaces%20Udaya...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY Buddhika Samaraweera President Gotabaya Rajapaksa reshuffled the Cabinet of Ministers yesterday (3), with two Cabinet Ministers being removed, one being newly appointed, and three cabinet ministerial posts being swapped with senior members of the Government. Accordingly, Industries Minister Wimal Weerawansa and Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila, who were recently seen criticising the current Government\u2019s policies, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=76369\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;SB Dissanayake  Given  Wimal Weerawansa s Industries Minister; Power Minister Gamini Lokuge  Replaces Udaya Gammanpila as Energy Minister;Transport Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi  Transferred to  Power Ministry while State Minister Dilum Amunugama  is Elevated as  Cabinet Minister of Transport&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/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\/76369"}],"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=76369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76370,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76369\/revisions\/76370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}