{"id":127206,"date":"2022-07-22T15:56:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T22:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=127206"},"modified":"2022-07-22T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T22:57:16","slug":"new-cabinet-of-ministers-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/22\/new-cabinet-of-ministers-sworn-in\/","title":{"rendered":"New Cabinet of Ministers sworn in"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The swearing-in of the new Cabinet of Ministers of the interim government under President Ranil Wickremesinghe took place at the Temple Trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ceremony was held after MP Dinesh Gunawardena took oaths as the new Prime Minister this morning.<\/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=\"New Cabinet of Ministers sworn in (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z3jqIgzmr3A?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>President Wickremesinghe has decided to continue the interim government with the cabinet ministers of his predecessor who stepped down last week. Accordingly, the ministers have been assigned the portfolios they were serving in prior to the resignation of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Ali Sabry, PC who was the Justice Minister and Finance Minister under Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s administration, has been given the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This ministerial portfolio was previously under the purview of Prof. G.L. Peiris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Cabinet of Ministers of the new interim government is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. PM Dinesh Gunawardena \u2013 Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils &amp; Local Government<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. Douglas Devananda \u2013 Minister of Fisheries<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. Susil Premajayantha \u2013 Minister of Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4. Bandula Gunawardena \u2013 Minister of Transport, Highways &amp; Media<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5. Keheliya Rambukwella \u2013 Minister of Health &amp; Water Supply<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>6. Mahinda Amaraweera \u2013 Minister of Agriculture, Wildlife &amp; Forest Conservation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe \u2013 Minister of Justice, Prisons &amp; Constitutional Reforms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8. Harin Fernando \u2013 Minister of Tourism &amp; Lands<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>9. Ramesh Pathirana \u2013 Minister of Industries &amp; Plantation Industries<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10. Prasanna Ranatunga \u2013 Minister of Urban Development &amp; Housing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11. Ali Sabry, PC \u2013 Minister of Foreign Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>12. Vidura Wickramanayake \u2013 Minister of Buddha Sasana, Religious &amp; Cultural Affairs&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>13. Kanchana Wijesekara \u2013 Minister of Power &amp; Energy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>14. Ahamed Nazeer \u2013 Minister of Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>15. Roshan Ranasinghe \u2013 Minister of Sports, Youth Affairs &amp; Irrigation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>16. Manusha Nanayakkara \u2013 Minister of Labour &amp; Foreign Employment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>17. Tiran Alles \u2013 Minister of Public Security<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>18. Nalin Fernando \u2013 Minister of Trade, Commerce &amp; Food Security<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The swearing-in of the new Cabinet of Ministers of the interim government under President Ranil Wickremesinghe took place at the Temple Trees. The ceremony was held after MP Dinesh Gunawardena took oaths as the new Prime Minister this morning. President Wickremesinghe has decided to continue the interim government with the cabinet ministers of [&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-127206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127206","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=127206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}