Two more Deputy Ministers appointed
September 10, 2015 02:15 pm
Two more Deputy Ministers have been sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena on Thursday.
Anuradha Jayaratne was sworn in as the Deputy Minister of Mahaweli and Environment while Sarathie Dushmantha Mithrapala took oath as the Deputy Minister of Justice and Buddha Sasana.
Incidentally they are both the sons of former Ministers and were elected to Parliament for the first time.
Anuradha is the son of former Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne, currently a Senior Political Adviser to the President, while Dushmantha is the son of ex-Minister H.R. Mithrapala.
The two Deputy Ministers were sworn in today due to them being absent during the swearing in ceremony of 19 State Ministers and 21 Deputy Ministers at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday (9).
This brings the total number of Deputy Ministers in the National Government to 23.
The new Cabinet consists of 46 Ministers as three Ministers were also sworn in yesterday.
