MP S.B. Dissanayake was sworn as the cabinet Minister of Rural Economic Affairs.

However, during the last Presidential election, he raised eyebrows after stating that former President Chandrika Bandaranaike should be stripped and sent on the road.

In response, Hirunika Premachandra also appeared in an campaigning video, declaring that the above statement of the politician had stripped the woman in general. The video is shown below.

Meanwhile, it is said that SLFP patron - Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga had deeply opposed Dissanayake being granted a cabinet ministerial portfolio, ''Sri Lanka Mirror" learns.