Live Updates: Cabinet reshuffle
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as the new Cabinet Minister of Law and Order, during the Cabinet reshuffle currently underway at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo.
New portfolios:
Ranil Wickemasinghe is the new Cabinet Minister of Law and Order
Laxman Kirelle is the new Cabinet Minister of State Enterprise and Kandy Development
Kabir Hashim is the new Cabinet Minister of Higher Education and Highways
Piyasena Gamage is the new State Minister Youth Affairs and Southern Development
Ravindra Samarawickerma is the new Cabinet Minister of Wildlife & Sustainable Development
Harin Fernando is the new Cabinet Minister of Digital Infrastructure & Foreign Employment
Sagala Ratnayake the new Cabinet Minister of Youth Affairs and Southern Development
Piyasena Gamage is the new State Minister Youth Affairs and Southern Development
Ajith P Perara is the new State Minister of Prisons and Rehabilitation
J. C. Alawathuwala is the new Deputy Minister of Home Affairs
Dr Harsha de Silva is the new State Minister of National Policies and Economic Affairs
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What difference this makes?
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will hold the Minister of Law and Order only for a week.
Prime Minister was appointed as the Minister of Law and Order previously held by Minister Sagala Ratnayake at the Cabinet reshuffle last afternoon.
A new Law and Order Minister will be appointed at the second round of the reshuffle.
Accordingly, there is a chance that a women MP who already holds a Cabinet ministry would be appointed to the post.