Four new ministers appointed; full Cabinet reshuffle after New Year
Some ministry subjects which fell vacant with the exit of six ministers who left the government after voting in favour of the No-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe were temporary handed over to four existing ministers by President Maithripala Sirisena today.
Meanwhile the full Cabinet reshuffle is expected to be carried out after the Sinhala and Tamil New year while these appointments have been made effective for the period until then, the President’s Media Division said.
The new Cabinet ministers appointed today:
Dr Sarath Amunugama – Minister of Skills Development and Vocation Training / Science and Technology
Ranjith Siyambalapitiya – Minister of Disaster Management
Faiszer Musthapha – Minister of Sports
Malik Samarawickrama – Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage / Labour and Labour Relations
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The UNP should appoint a Power Minister who is willing to have coal fueled BOT projects as base load and economical Hydro with large reservoirs as peaking power which will give us the people the least cost electricity in the world which will be in accordance to article 3,4,12and 27 of our constitution and will also be in accordance to Act No 20 of 2009 which is to give least cost electricity to we the people and also be prepared to build even 10 such power stations to meet the load of the several free zones we have without exceeding our target of per capita carbon metric tons per year of 9 as our capita carbon metric tons per year will be about 4.05