Highlights
- Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna chief Dinesh Gunawardena is the brand new Sri Lanka PM.
- He took oath at Prime Minister’s Workplace on Flower Highway, Colombo right this moment.
- Beforehand, he has held ministries like Public Administration, House Affairs.
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna chief Dinesh Gunawardena has been appointed as the brand new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. He took oath as the brand new Prime Minister on the Prime Minister’s Workplace on Flower Highway, Colombo right this moment. He was appointed as House Minister in April by then President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Beforehand, he has held ministries like Public Administration, Provincial Councils, and Native Authorities. Up till not too long ago, he was the Minister of Training within the nation.
Gunawardena’s election as Prime Minister comes amid financial turmoil in Sri Lanka, and other people protesting towards it. On Thursday, Ranil Wickremesinghe was inducted because the President of Sri Lanka.
The prime minister’s publish fell vacant after Wickremesinghe, 73, was on Thursday sworn in because the nation’s eighth president after Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the nation after which resigned as president.
He has known as for bipartisanship to deal with the unprecedented financial disaster the nation is going through.