Swearing in of new ministers of held before President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Presidential Secretariat this morning. 37 state ministers have been appointed accordingly.
Four MPs from Sri Lanka Freedom Party Jagath Pushpakumara, Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, Chamara Sampath Dasanayake and Lasantha Alagiyawanna have taken oaths as State Ministers
New State Ministers
- Jagath Pushpakumara – State Minister Foreign Employment
- Ranjith Siyambalapitiya – State Minister of Finance
- Lasantha Alagiyawanna – State Minister of Transport
- Dilum Amunugama – State Minister of Investment Promotion
- Kanaka Herath – State Minister of Technology
- Janaka Wakkumbura – State Minister of Provincial Councils, and Local Government
- Shehan Semasinghe – State Minister of Finance
- Mohan Priyadarshana De Silva – State Minister of Agriculture
- Thenuka Vidanagamage – State Minister of Urban Development and Housing
- Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon – State Minister of Security
- Rohana Dissanayake – State Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs
- Arundhika Fernando – State Minister of Urban Development and Housing
- Vijitha Berugoda – State Minister of Piriven Education
- Lohan Ratwatte – State Minister of Plantation Industries
- Tharaka Balasuriya – State Minister of External Affairs
- Sanath Nishantha- State Minister of Water Supply
- Indika Anurudhdha – State Minister of Power and Energy
- Siripala Gamlath – State Minister of Highways
- Shantha Bandara – State Minister of Media
- Anuradha Jayaratne – State Minister of Justice and Prisons Affairs
- S. Viyalendran – State Minister of Trade
- Sisira Jayakody – State Minister of Indigenious Medicine
- Piyal Nishantha De Silva – State Minister of Fisheries
- Prasanna Ranaweera – State Minister of Small and Medium Scale Industries Development
- D. V. Chanaka – State Minister of Wildlife and Forest Conservation
- D. B. Herath – State Minister of Livestock Development
- Shasheendra Rajapaksa – State Minister of Irrigation
- Dr. Seetha Arambepola – State Minister of Health
- Cader Masthan – State Minister of Rural Affairs
- Ashoka Priyantha – State Minister of Home Affairs
- Aravind Kumar – State Minister of Education
- Geetha Kumarasinghe – State Minister of Women and Child Affairs
- Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan – State Minister of Rural Roads Development
- Dr. Suren Raghavan – State Minister of Higher Education
- Diana Gamage – State Minister of Tourism
- Chamara Sampath Dassanayake – State Minister of Primary Industries
- Anupa Paquel – State Minister of Social Empowerment.
