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New Cabinet List and photo



37 Ministers and 39 Deputy Ministers were sworn in. The previous Cabinet comprised 51 Ministers, 39 non- Cabinet Ministers and 19 Deputy Ministers. Thus, the new Cabinet is significantly smaller with the number of Cabinet Ministers reduced to 37.


Minister

Portfolio

1

His Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapaksa

(1) Defence
(2) Finance & Planning
(3) Ports & Aviation
(4) Highways

2

Hon. D. M. Jayaratne

Buddhasasana & Religious Affairs

3

Hon. Ratnasiri Wickramanayake

Public Management & Reforms

4

Hon. Nimal Siripala de Silva

Irrigation & Water Resource Development

5

Hon. A. H. M. Fowzie

Disaster Management

6

Hon. Maithripala Sirisena

Health

7

Hon. Susil Premajayantha

Petroleum Industries

8

Hon. Dinesh Gunawardena

Water Supply & Drainage

9

Hon. Douglas Devananda

Traditional Industries & Small Enterprise Development

10

Hon. A. L. M. Athaullah

Local Government & Provincial Councils

11

Hon. D. E. W. Gunasekera

Rehabilitation & Prison Reforms

12

Hon. Rishad Bathiyutheen

Industry & Commerce

13

Hon. Wimal Weerawansa

Construction, Engineering Services, Housing & Common Amenities

14

Hon. Champika Ranawaka

Power & Energy


Hon. Basil Rajapaksa

Economic Development

15

Hon. P. Dayaratne

State Resources & Enterprise Development

16

Hon. (Prof) G. L. Peiris

Foreign Affairs

17

Hon. John Seneviratne

Public Administration & Home Affairs

18

Hon. (Mrs.) Sumedha Jayasena

Parliamentary Affairs

19

Hon. Milroy Fernando

Resettlement

20

Hon. Jeewan Kumaratunga

Post & Telecommunication

21

Hon. Pavithra Wanniarachchi

National Heritage & Cultural Affairs

22

Hon. Anura Priyadarshana Yapa

Environment

23

Hon. Tissa Karaliyadde

Child Development & Women's Affairs

24

Hon. Athauda Seneviratne

Justice

25

Hon. Gamini Lokuge

Labour Relations & Productivity Improvement

26

Hon. Bandula Gunawardena

Education

27

Hon. Mahinda Samarasinghe

Plantation

28

Hon. Rajitha Senaratne

Fisheries & Aquatic Resources

29

Hon. Piyasena Gamage

Indigenous Medicine

30

Hon. S. B. Navinne

National Languages & Social Integration

31

Hon. Janaka Bandara Tennekoon

Lands & Land Development

32

Hon. Felix Perera

Social Services

33

Hon. C. B. Rathnayake

Sports

34

Hon. Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena

Agriculture

35

Hon. Kumara Welgama

Transport

36

Hon. Dullas Alahaperuma

Youth Affairs

37

Hon. Johnston Fernando

Co-operatives & Internal Trade


Following are the Deputy Ministers and their portfolios:


Deputy Minister

Portfolio

1

Hon. Salinda Dissanayake

Plantation and Industries

2

Hon. Dilan Perera

Public Administration and Home Affairs

3

Hon. Susantha Punchinilame

Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development

4

Hon. Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena

Economic Development

5

Hon. Chandrasiri Gajadeera

Finance and Planning

6

Hon. Jagath Pushpakumara

Agriculture

7

Hon. T. B. Ekanayake

Education

8

Hon. Mahinda Amaraweera

Health

9

Hon. Rohitha Abeygunawardena

Ports and Aviation

10

Hon. S. N. Chandrasena

Irrigation and Water Resources Management

11

Hon. Gunaratne Weerakoon

National Heritage and Cultural Affairs

12

Hon. Mervyn Silva

Mass Media and Information

13

Hon. Pandu Bandaranayake

Indigenous Medicine

14

Hon. Jayaratna Herath

Industry and Commerce

15

Hon. Dayashritha Tissera

Ports and Aviation

16

Hon. Duminda Dissanayaka

Posts and Telecommunication

17

Hon. Ranjith Siyambalapitiya

Economic Development

18

Hon. Lasantha Alagiyawanne

Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities

19

Hon. Rohana Dissanayake

Transport

20

Hon. H. R. Mithrapala

Livestock Development

21

Hon. Nirmala Kothalawala

Highways

22

Hon. Premalal Jayasekera

Power and Energy

23

Hon. Geethanjana Gunawardena

External Affairs

24

Hon. Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan

Resettlement

25

Hon. Indika Bandaranayake

Local Government and Provincial Councils

26

Hon. Muthu Sivalingam

Economic Development

27

Hon. Siripala Gamlath

Lands and Land Development

28

Hon. W. B. Ekanayake

Disaster Management

29

Hon. Chandrasiri Suriyarachchi

Social Services

30

Hon. Neomal Perera

Co-operatives and Internal Trade

31

Hon. Sarath Gunaratne

State Resources and Enterprise Development

32

Hon. Nandimithra Ekanayake

Higher Education

33

Hon. Nirupama Rajapaksa

Water Supply and Drainage

34

Hon. Lalith Dissanayake

Technology and Research

35

Hon. Sarana Gunawardena

Petroleum Industries

36

Hon. Reginold Cooray

Justice

37

Hon. Vijithmuni Zoysa

Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms

38

Hon. N. L. A. M. Hisbullah

Child Development and Women’s Affairs

39

Hon. Weerakumara Dissanayake

Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development


The Team at sandanaya.tk /blogspot.com takes this opportunity to congratulate and wish the newly appointed Prime Minister, Speaker of Parliament, Deputy Speaker, Deputy Chairman of Committees, Members of Parliament and all 37 Cabinet Ministers and 39 Deputies well.

New Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne


ImageNewly appointed Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne said that he will be fully committed towards making Sri Lanka a developed country. It is his expectation that a favorable environment for goodwill among all people can be created while moving forward with the Mahinda Chintana policy.

He invited the public to join them devoid of party differences to accomplish this task. He said while fulfilling this duty they hope to eliminate hatred and jealousy that prevail among parties and to venture into the path towards development.

He invited party leaders and others to join them. He noted that there are five communities in the country. It is the desire of the Government to create an administration and an economy that would be fair towards all.

He made these statements while addressing the new parliament members at the inaugural session of the 7th Parliament.

source news.lk

UPFA to obtain almost 2/3 majority with the National List seats

The ruling party of Sri Lanka, the UPFA has been able to secure a vast majority of seats at the Parliamentary General Election concluded yesterday evening with the completion of the re-polls at the Nawalapitiya Electorate in the Kandy District and the Kumburupiddi polling division of the Trincomalee District.
The UPFA obtained 10 out of 19 seats in Colombo, Gampaha – 12 (out of
18), Kalutara – 7 (out of 10), Kandy – 8 (out of 12), Matale – 4 (out
of 5), Nuwara Eliya – 5 (out of 7), Galle – 7 (out of 10), Matara – 6
(out of 8), Hambantota – 5 (out of 7), Jaffna – 3 (out of 9), Vanni –
2 (out of 6), Batticaloa – 1 (out of 5), Digamadulla – 4 (out of 7),
Trincomalee – 2 (out of 4), Kurunegala – 10 (out of 15), Puttalam – 6
(out of 8), Anuradhapura – 7 (out of 9), Polonnaruwa – 4 (out of 5),
Badulla – 6 (out of 8), Moneragala – 4 (out of 5), Ratnapura – 7 (out
of 10) and 7 out of 9 seats in the Kegalla District.

The total number of seats obtained by UPFA through the electoral
process now stands at 127. With more seats to be earned through the
National List, the UPFA will obtain a large majority of seats which
will be close to a two third of the total number in the next
Parliament.

The largely anticipated strong government elected through the General
Election will undoubtedly strengthen the newly re-elected President’s
massive development programme. The verdict of the people has been made
clear once again after 3 months of the re-election of President
Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Sandanaya wins Kandy Diistrict and Trincomalee District

In the Kandy District, the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA)
obtained 339,819 votes (60.77%) and earned 8 seats for those votes
received. Their closest contender the United National Party (UNP)
obtained 192,798 votes (34.48%) for which it earned half the number of
ruling party seats, which is 4.

The Democratic National Alliance (DNA) which came thrid in the Kandy
District managed to obtain only 23,728 votes (4.24%) for which it
earned no seats in the parliament.

In the Kandy District, the total number of Valid votes stood at
559,226 (90.55%) whilst the number Rejected was 58,333 (9.45%).
Therefore, the total number polled was recorded as 617,559 (63.64%).

Trincomalee District
The total number of valid votes stands at 43,454 (92.58%) with the
total number of rejected votes being 3,483 (7.42%). The total number
polled was 46,937 (54.15%).

The UPFA had won 2 seats for the 59,784 votes (42.78%) received and
the UNP had won 1 seat for the 39,691 votes (28.40%) they had
obtained. ITAK received a total of 33,268 votes (23.81%) for which
they have won 1 seat.

The total number of valid votes in the District of Trincomalee was
139,742 (93.17%). The number of rejected votes stood at 10,240
(6.83%). The total number polled was 149,982 (62.20%).

ඔබ අපේ ජනපතිය. . .


ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ සවස ගාලු මුව‍දොර පිටියෙහි සිදුකෙරෙන ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ කටයුතු පිළිබඳව නිරීක්ෂණය කිරීම සඳහා හදිසි සංචාරයක නිරත විය. ඉහත ඡායාරූපයේ දැක්වෙන්නේ එම අවස්ථාවේදී රැස්ව සිටි ජනතාව සමග ජනාධිපතිවරයා සුහද සංවාදයක යෙදෙමින් ඔවුන් වෙත සුබ පැතූ අයුරුය.

ඡායා -සුදත් සිල්වා

Entire country geared for the first peacetime New Year


The entire country is geared to welcome the first peacetime New Year after the end of the three-decade long war. The country is especially elated with the re-election of President Mahinda Rajapaksa in January and last Thursday’s victory of his government just ahead of the dawn of the traditional Sinhala and Tamil New Year with the Sun moving from the House of Pisces to the Aries

The New Year dawns at the auspicious time of 6.58 a.m. today. Punya kalaya will begin at 34 minutes past midnight and end at 1.22 p.m. The first part of the “Punya kalaya” is set aside for religious ceremonies while the second part is for traditions such as preparing meals, starting work and transactions for the New Year.

The New Year will dawn at 6.58 a.m.14th April. The auspicious time for the lighting of the hearth is 7.01 a.m 14th April facing the North and attired in light green coloured clothing. Milk rice mixed with Ghee and Undu should be prepared.

The auspicious for the commencement of work for the New Year, transactions and partaking of meals is at 9.07 a.m. 14th April. This should be done also facing the North and attired in light green coloured clothing.

10.06 a.m. on Thursday the 15th is the auspicious time for anointing of oil. Attired in gold coloured garments and facing the North, oil mixed with essence of bo-leaves and standing on Kohomba leaves under a canopy of bo-leaves should be anointed.

President Miahinda Rajapaksa Discussion of New Cabinet


As the people of Sri Lanka gave his party a resounding
victory in the Parliamentary Elections 2010, a jubilant President
Mahinda Rajapaksa started consultations with trusted top bureaucrats
on selection of his new cabinet for early and efficient implementation
of the Mahinda Chinthana Idiri Dekma the promise of a Bright Future for the beloved
Motherland at President s House on 09th evening. President s Secretary Mr. Lalith Weerathunga, Finance Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundara and President s Additional Secretary Mr. Gamini Senarath also are in the picture.
Pix by Sudath Silva

from: sandanaya.lk/ 4 10

Colombo District Preferential Votes - Manapa


Wimal Weerawansa topped the Colombo and UPFA list with 280,672 votes. In 2 nd place UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe led the party’s preferential votes’ list in the Colombo district by obtaining 230,957 votes.

In the UPFA list, candidates R. Duminda Silva and Paatali Champika Ranawaka have clinched the second and third slots with 146,336 and 120,333 preferential votes.

Besides, Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka who is in military custody contesting the election under the Trophy symbol had received 98,456 votes. His party polled 110,000 votes in the Colombo district.

~ SANDANAYA~ The Triumph of Democracy

ImageThis is the triumph of Democracy. It is a clear restatement of the confidence the people placed in me, the Mahinda Chintana and the UPFA at the recent Presidential Election, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa commenting on the results of the General Election which gave a clear parliamentary majority to the UPFA.
‘We are humbled by the size of the repeated mandates given by the people and pledge to respond, in full measure, to the trust placed in us,’ the President added.

The assured majority in parliament given by the voters encourages the
government to proceed with its policies for the strengthening of peace
and reconciliation, reconstruction, greater infrastructure
development, increased investment in identified areas of growth, and
the overall development of the country to make it the centre of
economic and social progress in South Asia.

These results, coming after the successful elections to Provincial
Councils and the Presidential Election, are proof that democracy is
fully in place in Sri Lanka and the commitment of our people to the
democratic process.

It is now the time for peaceful celebration by those who have
contributed to this victory; and the acceptance of the verdict of the
ballot by those who have lost. It is also the time for all who place
their trust in democracy to come together to build a new era of
prosperity for Sri Lanka, the President said.

from news.lk Saturday, 10 April 2010

Highest vote catchers


Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa received a massive 425,100 preferential votes from the Gampaha district, the highest by any candidate at Thursday’s general election. Meanwhile, Namal Rajapaksa by obtaining 147,568 preferential votes recorded the highest majority percentage-wise at the election.

John Seneviratne (UPFA) Ratnapura 125,816
Thalatha Athukorale (UNF) -do- 64,592

Maithripala Sirisena (UPFA) Polonnaruwa 90,118
Earl Gunasekera (UNF) -do- 26,925

Sanath Jayasuriya (UPFA) Matara 74,372
Buddhika Pathirana (UNF) -do- 62,492

Jagath Pushpakumara (UPFA) Moneragala 67,903
Ranjith Madduma Bandara (UNF) -do- 15,105

Nimal Siripala de Silva (UPFA) Badulla 141,990
Harin Fernando (UNF) -do- 49,073

S. Thondaman (UPFA) Nuwara Eliya 60,997
S. Digambaram (UNF) -do- 39,490

Ranjith Siyambalapitiya (UPFA) Kegalle 141,435
Kabir Hashim (UNF) -do- 48,344

Namal Rajapaksa (UPFA) Hambantota 147,568
Sajith Premadasa (UNF) -do- 74,467

Final District Result - Anuradhapura District

United People's Freedom Alliance 221,204 66.52% 7
United National Party 80,360 24.17% 2
Democratic National Alliance 18,129 5.45% 0

Final District Result - Polonnaruwa District

United People's Freedom Alliance 118,694 69.22% 4
United National Party 45,732 26.67% 1
Democratic National Alliance 6,457 3.77% 0

Final District Result - Moneragala District

United People's Freedom Alliance 120,634 75.64% 4
United National Party 28,892 18.12% 1
Democratic National Alliance 9,018 5.65% 0

Final District Result - Badulla District

United People's Freedom Alliance 203,689 58.25% 6
United National Party 112,886 32.28% 2
Democratic National Alliance 15,768 4.51% 0

Final District Result - Puttalam District

United People's Freedom Alliance 167,769 64.83% 6
United National Party 81,152 31.36% 2
Democratic National Alliance 8,792 3.40% 0

Final District Result - Kurunegala District

United People's Freedom Alliance 429,316 63.84% 10
United National Party 213,713 31.78% 5
Democratic National Alliance 26,440 3.93% 0

Final District Result - Colombo District

United People's Freedom Alliance 480,896 51.19% 10
United National Party 339,750 36.17% 7
Democratic National Alliance 110,683 11.78% 2

Final District Result - Digamadulla District

United People's Freedom Alliance 132,096 51.41% 4
United National Party 90,757 35.32% 2
Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi 26,895 10.47% 1
Democratic National Alliance 2,917 1.14% 0

Final District Result - Batticaloa District

Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi 66,235 36.67% 3
United People's Freedom Alliance 62,009 34.33% 1
United National Party 22,935 12.70% 1
Thamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal 16,886 9.35% 0
Tamil United Liberation Front 4,424 2.45% 0

Final District Result - Vanni District

Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi 41,673 38.96% 3
United People's Freedom Alliance 37,522 35.07% 2
United National Party 12,783 11.95% 1
Democratic People's Liberation Front 5,900 5.52% 0
Eelam People's Democratic Party 2,867 2.68% 0

Final District Result - Jaffna District

Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi 65,119 43.85% 5
United People's Freedom Alliance 47,622 32.07% 3
United National Party 12,624 8.50% 1
Akila Ilankai Thamil Congress 6,362 4.28% 0

Final District Result - Nuwara-Eliya District

United People's Freedom Alliance 149,111 56.01% 5
United National Party 96,885 36.39% 2
Up-Country People's Front 13,189 4.95% 0
Democratic National Alliance 3,984 1.50% 0

Final District Result - Matara District

United People's Freedom Alliance 213,937 65.31% 6
United National Party 91,114 27.81% 2
Democratic National Alliance 20,465 6.25% 0

Final District Result - Ratnapura District

United People's Freedom Alliance 305,327 68.86% 7
United National Party 125,076 28.21% 3
Democratic National Alliance 11,053 2.49% 0

Final District Result - Kegalle District

United People's Freedom Alliance 242,463 66.89% 7
United National Party 104,925 28.95% 2
Democratic National Alliance 13,518 3.73% 0

GAMPAHA Final District Result

United People's Freedom Alliance - 589,476 63.37% 12
United National Party - 266,523 28.65% 5
Democratic National Alliance - 69,747 7.50% 1

Matale District Final Result - UPFA wins 4 seats

At the Parliamentary Election of 2010, in the Matale District, the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) has earned 4 seats for receiving 131,069 votes (66.96%).

The United National Party (UNP) has earned 1 seats for 55,737 (28.47%) and the Democratic National Alliance (DNA) won no seat for the 7,636 (3.90%) received.

Total number of Valid votes is 195,750 (91.02%) whilst the Rejected number of votes stands at 19,310 (8.98%). The total polled was 215,060 (62.76%).

Gampaha goes to UPFA

At the Parliamentary Election of 2010, in the Gampaha District -Gampaha Electorate, the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) has recorded the victory by receiving 58,268 votes (69.56%).

The United National Party (UNP) has 17,976 votes (21.46%) and the
Democratic National Alliance (DNA) 7,188 votes (8.58%).

Total number of Valid votes is 83,768 (95.52%) whilst the Rejected
number of votes stands at 3,930 (4.48%). The total polled was 87,698
(65.64%).

Galle Superb Victory UPFA

At the Parliamentary Election 2010 in the Galle District - Galle electorate, United People's Freedom Alliance UPFA recorded a clear victory with 20,348 votes (50.08%) over United National Party (UNP) who obtained 14,804 (36.44%).

Democratic National Alliance DNA earned 5,324 votes (13.10%).

Valid votes stood at 40,628 (95.88%) whilst Rejected were 1,744 (4.12%). Total Polled was 42,372 (59.20%).

Kalutara District - UPFA wins 7 seats

At the Parliamentary Election of 2010, in the Kalutara District, the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) has earned 7seats for receiving 313,836 votes (63.68%).

The United National Party (UNP) has earned 2 seats for 139,596
(28.32%) and the Democratic National Alliance (DNA) 1 seat for the
36,722 votes (7.45%) received.

Total number of Valid votes is 492,855 (90.50%) whilst the Rejected
number of votes stands at 51,751 (9.50%). The total polled was 544,606 (66.97%).

Parliamentary Election - 2010 UPFA gets 5 seats in Hambantota

At the Parliamentary Election of 2010, the Final District Result for Hambantota District shows the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) receiving 174,808 votes (62.87%) giving them as many as 5 seats.

The main challenger United National Party (UNP) managed to get only 2 seats having received only 83,027 votes or 29.86%.

Once again, the Democratic National Alliance DNA managed to get just 19,186 votes or 6.90% which gives them no seat in the entire Hambanthota District. JVP is a part of the DNA and Hambanthota is a traditional JVP stronghold.

Total Valid votes were 278,054 ( 96.11% ) whilst 11,240 votes (3.89%) were rejected. Total Polled stood at 289,294 or 68.69%.

කුරහන් සාටකය


කුරහන් සාටකය දැන්නම්
බලගතු වුව ද ජනතාවට
අයියල මල්ලිලා පොකුරම
මේ එකමුතු පෙළට අප එක්විය

බලගතුය
ළෙන්ගතුය
එකමුතුය
යුතුය

කසුරි

ඡායා - සුදත් සිල්වා

බුලත් කොළයේ ජයග්‍රහණය උපන් බිමේ විජයග්‍රහණයයි - ජනපති

බුලත් කොළයට ලබා දෙන ඡන්දය උපන් මවුබිම වෙනුවෙන් කරන යුතුකම් ඉටු කිරීමක් බවත් පරාජිත දේශපාලන පක්ෂවලට ඡන්දය දීම මවුබිම වෙනුවෙන් ඉටු විය යුතු යුතුකම් පැහැර හැරීමක් වන බවත් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිතුමා පෙන්වා දෙයි.

මාතෘභූ®මියේ ඒකීයත්වය ආරක්ෂා කැර ගනිමින් අභිමානවත් මෙන් ම සමෘද්ධිමත් රටක් ගොඩනැංවීමේ වගකීම නිසි ලෙස ක්‍රියාවට නැංවූ එකම ආණ්ඩුව එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධාන ආණ්ඩුව බවද, මාතෘභූ®මියට ආදරය කරන කිසිවකුට එම වැඩපිළිවෙළ ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කළ නොහැකි බවද ජනාධිපතිතුමා වැඩිදුරටත් පෙන්වා දුන්නේය.

ජනාධිපතිතුමා මේ අදහස් පළ කෙළේ කැකිරාව මහජන ක්‍රීඩාංගණයේ දී ඉකුත් සිකුරාදා පැවැති මහජන රැලිය අමතමිනි.

පෞද්ගලික අරමුණු පසෙකලා පොදුවේ එක්වී එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානය දිනවා මාතෘභූ®මිය දිනවීමට සියලු දෙනා අත්වැල් බැඳගත යුතු බවත් ජනාධිපතිතුමා මෙහිදී පෙන්වා දුන්නේය.

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