Thursday, 24 April 2025
SLFP ministers sworn in

SLFP ministers sworn in

President Maithripala Sirisena today appointed 11 new cabinet ministers, five state ministers and ten deputy ministers.

They took oaths at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo. 

Cabinet ministers

S.B. Nawinna - Minister of Labour and Labour Relations

A.H.M. Fowzie - Minister of Disaster Management

Piyasena Gamage - Minister of Project Management skill Development  

Sarath Amunugama - Minister of Research and Higher Education

S.B. Dissanayake - Minister of Rural Economic Development

Janaka Tennakoon - Minister of Local Government and Provincial Councils

Felix Perera - Minister of Special Projects

Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena-Minister of Parliamentary Affairs

Reginald Cooray - Minister of Civil Aviation

Mahinda Amaraweera - Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources

Vijith Vijayamuni Soysa - Minister of Irrigation & Water Resources Management

Ministers of state

Pavithra Wanniarachchi – State Minister of Environment

Jeevan Kumaratunga - State Minister of Labour and Labour Relations

Mahinda Samarasinghe - State Minister of Finance

C.B. Rathnayake - State Minister of Public Administration

Dilan Perera - State Minister of Housing and Samurdhi

Deputy ministers

Tissa Karaliyadde – Deputy Minister of Buddha Sasana, Democratic Governance

Ranjith Siyambalapitiya - Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs

Dayasritha Tissera - Deputy Minister of Fisheries

Lakshman Seneviratne - Deputy Minister of Disaster Management

Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena - Deputy Minister of Aviation

Lalith Dissanayake - Deputy Minister of Irrigation

Jagath Pushpakumara - Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries

Sudarshani Fernandopulle - Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Research

Shantha Bandara - Deputy Minister of Media

Lasantha Alagiyawanna - Deputy Minister of Rural Economic Affairs

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