{"id":79421,"date":"2022-09-07T00:54:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T04:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=79421"},"modified":"2022-09-08T03:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:00:22","slug":"37-state-ministers-sworn-in-before-president-ranil-wickremesinghe-on-sep-8th-rajapaksas-begin-return-to-govt-with-shasheendra-rajapaksa-becoming-irrigation-state-ministermajority-of-ministers-are-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=79421","title":{"rendered":"37 State Ministers Sworn in Before President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sep 8th;  Rajapaksas Begin Return to Govt with Shasheendra Rajapaksa becoming Irrigation State Minister;Majority of ministers are from the SLPP."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>37 State Ministers were sworn in before President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Presidential Secretariat in the  morning  of September 8th 2022. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka Freedom Party Parliamentarians Jagath Pushpakumara, Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, Chamara Sampath Dasanayake and Lasantha Alagiyawanna have taken oaths as State Ministers before the President<\/p>\n<p><strong>The  Sworn in State Miisters and the portfolios assigned <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jagath Pushpakumara \u2013 State Minister Foreign Employment <\/p>\n<p>Ranjith Siyambalapitiya \u2013 State Minister of Finance<\/p>\n<p>Lasantha Alagiyawanna \u2013 State Minister of Transport <\/p>\n<p>Dilum Amunugama \u2013 State Minister of Investment Promotion<\/p>\n<p>Kanaka Herath \u2013 State Minister of Technology<\/p>\n<p>Janaka Wakkumbura \u2013 State Minister of Provincial Councils, and Local Government<\/p>\n<p>Shehan Semasinghe \u2013 State Minister of Finance<\/p>\n<p>Mohan Priyadarshana De Silva \u2013 State Minister of Agriculture <\/p>\n<p>Thenuka Vidanagamage \u2013 State Minister of Urban Development and Housing<\/p>\n<p>Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon \u2013 State Minister of Security<\/p>\n<p>Rohana Dissanayake \u2013 State Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs<\/p>\n<p>Arundhika Fernando \u2013 State Minister of Urban Development and Housing<\/p>\n<p>Vijitha Berugoda \u2013 State Minister of Piriven Education <\/p>\n<p>Lohan Ratwatte \u2013 State Minister of Plantation Industries <\/p>\n<p>Tharaka Balasuriya \u2013 State Minister of External Affairs <\/p>\n<p>Sanath Nishantha- State Minister of Water Supply <\/p>\n<p>Indika Anurudhdha \u2013 State Minister of Power and Energy<\/p>\n<p>Siripala Gamlath \u2013 State Minister of Highways<\/p>\n<p>Shantha Bandara \u2013 State Minister of Media <\/p>\n<p>Anuradha Jayaratne  \u2013 State Minister of Justice and Prisons Affairs<\/p>\n<p>S. Viyalendran \u2013 State Minister of Trade<\/p>\n<p>Sisira Jayakody \u2013 State Minister of Indegenious Medicine<\/p>\n<p>Piyal Nishantha De Silva \u2013 State Minister of Fisheries<\/p>\n<p>Prasanna Ranaweera \u2013 State Minister of  Small and Medium Scale Industries Development<\/p>\n<p>D. V. Chanaka \u2013 State Minister of Wildlife and Forest Conservation<\/p>\n<p>D. B. Herath \u2013 State Minister of Livestock Development <\/p>\n<p>Shasheendra Rajapaksa \u2013 State Minister of Irrigation <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Seetha Arambepola \u2013 State Minister of Health <\/p>\n<p>Cader Masthan \u2013 State Minister of Rural Affairs<\/p>\n<p>Ashoka Priyantha \u2013 State Minister of Home Affairs <\/p>\n<p>Aravind Kumar \u2013 State Minister of Education <\/p>\n<p>Geetha Kumarasinghe \u2013 State Minister of Women and Child Affairs<\/p>\n<p>Sivanesathurai Santhirakanthan \u2013 State Minister of Rural Roads Development<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Suren Raghavan \u2013 State Minister of Higher Education<\/p>\n<p>Diana Gamage \u2013 State Minister of Tourism<\/p>\n<p>Chamara Sampath Dassanayake \u2013 State Minister of Primary Industries<\/p>\n<p>Anura Paquel \u2013 State Minister of Social Empowerment.<\/p>\n<p><em>COURTESY:DAILY MIRROR<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton79421\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D79421&amp;text=37%20State%20Ministers%20Sworn%20in%20Before%20President%20Ranil%20Wickremesinghe%20on%20Sep%208th%3B%20%20Rajapaksas%20Begin%20Return%20to%20Govt...%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>37 State Ministers were sworn in before President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Presidential Secretariat in the morning of September 8th 2022. Sri Lanka Freedom Party Parliamentarians Jagath Pushpakumara, Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, Chamara Sampath Dasanayake and Lasantha Alagiyawanna have taken oaths as State Ministers before the President The Sworn in State Miisters and the portfolios assigned Jagath &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=79421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;37 State Ministers Sworn in Before President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sep 8th;  Rajapaksas Begin Return to Govt with Shasheendra Rajapaksa becoming Irrigation State Minister;Majority of ministers are from the SLPP.&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\/79421"}],"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=79421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79422,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79421\/revisions\/79422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}