26. April 2010


 

NEWS

 

Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister is D.M. Jayaratne

 

General Secretary of the People’s Alliance (PA), Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Jayaratne was sworn in as the new Prime Minster of Sri Lanka before President Mahinda Rajapaksa on 21 April 2010. Mr. Jayaratne entered the Parliament following the General Election in 1970.

 

He was a key member in organizing the People's Alliance in the General Election of 1994 and became the Minister of Land, Agriculture and Forestry in the cabinet of Prime Minister Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga. Following the election in 2000 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture, Food and Corporative. With the General Election victory of the PA in 2004, he was appointed Minister of Post and Telecommunication and Upcountry Development and later in 2005 he was appointed Minister of Post and Telecommunication and Rural Economic Development under President Mahinda Rajapaksa. From 2007 to date he had been the Minister of Plantation Industries.

 

In 2001 he was elected Chairman of the Asia Pacific Region of Food and Agriculture Organization. Mr. Jayaratne is the 20th Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

 

Source: www.news.lk