{"id":42539,"date":"2015-03-22T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=42539"},"modified":"2015-03-22T04:13:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T11:13:50","slug":"new-slfp-ministers-take-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/03\/22\/new-slfp-ministers-take-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"New SLFP Ministers take oath"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena today appointed eleven new Cabinet Ministers, five State Ministers and ten Deputy Ministers at a ceremony held at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, a short while ago.<\/p>\n<p>Minster and Cabinet Spokesman Rajitha Senaratne on Sunday (22) said that the Government has decided to form a coalition with the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).<\/p>\n<p>UNP-SLFP national government. This will be a historic decision,\u201d the Minister added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cabinet Ministers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>S.B. Nawinne-Minister of Labour and Labour Relations<br \/>\nA.H.M. Fowzie-Minister of Disaster Management<br \/>\nPiyasena Gamage-Minister of Project Management skill Development<br \/>\nSarath Amunugama-Minister of Research and Higher Education<br \/>\nS.B. Dissanayake-Minister of Rural Economic Development<br \/>\nJanaka Tennakoon-Minister of Local Government and Provincial Councils<br \/>\nFelix Perera-Minister of Special Projects<br \/>\nMahinda Yapa Abeywardena-Minister of Parliamentary Affairs<br \/>\nReginald Cooray-Minister of Civil Aviation<br \/>\nMahinda Amaraweera-Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources<br \/>\nVijith Vijayamuni Soysa-Minister of Irrigation &amp; Water Resources Management<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ministers of State<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pavithra Wanniarachchi-State Minister of Environment<br \/>\nJeevan Kumaratunga-State Minister of Labour and Labour Relations<br \/>\nMahinda Samarasinghe-State Minister of Finance<br \/>\nC.B. Rathnayake-State Minister of Public Administration<br \/>\nDilan Perera-State Minister of of Housing and Samurdhi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deputy Ministers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tissa Karaliyadda-Deputy Minister of Buddha Sasana<br \/>\nDayasritha Tissera-Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources<br \/>\nR. Siyambalapitiya-Deputy Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs<br \/>\nLakshman Seneviratne-Deputy Minister of Disaster Management<br \/>\nLakshman Yapa Abeywardena-Deputy Minister of Civil Aviation<br \/>\nLalith Dissanayake-Deputy Minister of Irrigation<br \/>\nJagath Pushpakumara-Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries<br \/>\nLasantha Alagiyawanna-Deputy Minister of Rural Economic Development<br \/>\nSudarshani Fernandopulle-Deputy Minister of Research and Higher Education<br \/>\nShantha Bandara-Deputy Minister of Mass Media &amp; Information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena today appointed eleven new Cabinet Ministers, five State Ministers and ten Deputy Ministers at a ceremony held at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, a short while ago. Minster and Cabinet Spokesman Rajitha Senaratne on Sunday (22) said that the Government has decided to form a coalition with the Sri Lanka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42539","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=42539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}