3 Deputy Ministers and 35 State Ministers were sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapakasa at the Presidential Secretariat today.
The Sate Ministers and Deputy Ministers are as follows;
Deputy Ministers
- Nimal Lanza - Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment and Estate Infrastructure
- Kanchana Wijesekara - Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
- Indika Anuruddha - Deputy Minister of Public Management, Internal Affairs, Provincial Council and Local Government
- Chamal Rajapaksa – State Minister of Defense
- Wasudeva Nanayakkara – State Minister of Water Resources Management
- Gamini Lokuge – State Minister of Urban Development
- Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene – State Minister of Irrigation and Rural Development
- S.B. Dissanayake – State Minister of Land and Land Development
- John Seneviratne – State Minister of Economic Policy Development
- Susil Premajayantha – State Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Priyankara Jayaratne – State Minister of Indigenous Medicine
- Ranjith Siymabalapitiya – State Minister of Education Services
- Duminda Dissanayake – State Minister of Youth Affairs
- Mahindananda Aluthgamage – State Minister of Electricity
- Rohitha Abeygunawardene – State Minister of Energy
- Mahinda Samarasinghe – State Minister of State Administration and Internal Affairs
- C.B. Rathnayake – State Minister of Railway Services
- Sanath Nishantha – State Minister of Fisheries
- Dayasiri Jayasekara – State Minister of Industry
- Lasantha Alagiyawanne – State Minister of State Management and Public Accounts
- Keheliya Rambukwella – State Minister of Investment Promotion
Arundika Fernando – State Minister of Tourism Promotion - Roshan Ranasinghe – State Minister of Mahaweli Development
- Janaka Wakumbura – State Minister of Export Agriculture
- Vidura Wickramanayake – State Minister of Agriculture
- Shehan Semasinghe – State Minister of Development Banks and Loan Schemes
- Kanaka Herath – State Minister of Port Development
- Thilanga Sumathipala – State Minister of Technology and Innovations
- Mohan Priyadarshana de Silva – State Minister of Human Rights and Legal Reforms
- Vijitha Berugoda – State Minister of Women’s and Children’s Affairs
- Dilum Amunugama – State Minister of Transport Services Management
- Lohan Rathwatte – State Minister of Road Development
- Wimalaweera Dissanayake – State Minister of Wild Life Resources
- Jayantha Samaraweera – State Minister of Environment
- Tharaka Balasuriya – State Minister of Social Security
- Lakshman Yapa Abeywardene – State Minister of Information and Communication Technology
- Susantha Punchinilame – State Minister of SME Development
- Anura Priyadarshana Yapa – State Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Welfare