Badulla District MP Vadivel Suresh has been appointed as the State Minister of Labour, while MP Ali Zahir Moulana is now the Non-Cabinet Minister for Development Projects.
Both were sworn in before President Ranil Wickremesinghe today.
Mr. Suresh, initially elected from the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) in 2020, but was removed as the SJB’s Passara Organiser last year after voting for the 2024 Budget.
He was later appointed as an advisor to the President on integrating up-country Tamils.
Mr. Moulana, from the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), took his parliamentary seat on October 17 to replace former minister Naseer Ahamed and recently extended support for President Wickremesinghe in the upcoming presidential election.
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
Cabinet has approved the appointment of Commodore (retired) M.B.N.A. Premaratne of the Sri Lanka Navy, as the new Commissioner General of Excise.
Villagers in Nirmalapura, Daluwa, Norochcholai today staged a protest over an incident where a group of Navy officials and sailors had assaulted a resident in the area over night, Police said.
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