Two Ministers and two State Ministers sworn in

Two Cabinet Ministers and a State Minister have been appointed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

State Minister Dilum Amunugama was sworn in as the new Cabinet Minister of Transport.

Amunugama was appointed for the portfolio which became vacant after Pavithra Wanniarachchi, who was serving as the Transport Minister, was sworn in as the new Minister of Power on Thursday following the sacking of Udaya Gammanpila.

C.B. Ratnayake was sworn in as the Minister of Wildlife and Wildlife Conservation, and Wimalaweera Dissanayake as the State Minister of Disaster Management.

Arundika Fernando, who resigned from his post over the assault on Kelaniya University medical students, was also sworn in as the State Minister for Coconut, Kitul and Palmyrah Cultivation Promotion and Allied Industrial Products Production and Export Diversification.

New ministerial portfolios after reshuffle: 

Gamini Lokuge - Minister of Energy

Pavithra Wanniarachchi - Minister of Power

S.B. Dissanayake - Minister of Industries

Dilum Amunugama - Minister of Transport

Arundika Fernando - State Minister of Coconut, Kithul and Palmyra Cultivation Promotion, Related Industrial Product Manufacturing and Export Diversification

C.B. Ratnayake - Minister of Wildlife Protection and Forest Resources Development

Wimalaweera Dissanayake - State Minister of Disaster Management