{"id":125605,"date":"2022-05-23T14:22:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=125605"},"modified":"2022-05-23T14:22:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:22:06","slug":"eight-more-ministers-sworn-in-before-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/05\/23\/eight-more-ministers-sworn-in-before-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight more ministers sworn in before President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The appointing of eight more Cabinet Ministers of the All-Party Government took place before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa this morning (23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Several more ministers sworn in before President (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q_xWVdBHmj8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The new ministers were sworn in at the President\u2019s House in Fort, the PMD reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahinda Amaraweera has been sworn in as the Minister of Agriculture, Forest Resources and Wildlife while Roshan Ranasinghe has been appointed as Minister of Irrigation, Sports and Youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bandula Gunawardena has been sworn in as the Minister of Mass Media, Transport and Highways while MP Vidura Wickramanayake is appointed the Minister of Buddhashasana, Religious Affairs and Cultural Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Douglas Devananda is re-appointed Minister of Fisheries while parliamentarian Ahamed Naseer has been sworn in as the new Minister of Environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keheliya Rambukwella has been appointed Minister of Water Supply in addition to his portfolio as Health Minister while Ramesh Pathirana has been appointed Minister of Industries, in addition to his portfolio as Plantations Minister.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Ministers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Douglas Devananda \u2013 Minister of Fisheries&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Mahinda Amaraweera \u2013 Minister of Agriculture, Forest Resources &amp; Wildlife&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Roshan Ranasinghe \u2013 Minister of Irrigation, Sports and Youth&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Bandula Gunawardena \u2013 Minister of Mass Media, Transport &amp; Highways<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Vidura Wickramanayake \u2013 Minister of Buddhashasana, Religious Affairs and Cultural Affairs<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Keheliya Rambukwella \u2013 Minister of Water Supply&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Ramesh Pathirana \u2013 Minister of Industries<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Ahamed Naseer Zainulabdeen \u2013 Minister of Environment&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirteen cabinet ministers including Rambukwella and Pathirana had been appointed on two previous occasions. Accordingly, this brings the total number of cabinet minister to 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The appointing of eight more Cabinet Ministers of the All-Party Government took place before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa this morning (23). The new ministers were sworn in at the President\u2019s House in Fort, the PMD reported.&nbsp; Mahinda Amaraweera has been sworn in as the Minister of Agriculture, Forest Resources and Wildlife while Roshan Ranasinghe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}