29 July 2019 08:30 pm
All Muslim cabinet ministers, deputy ministers and state ministers who resigned from their portfolios recently, were sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena a short while ago, the Presidential Media Division said.
Rauff Hakeem was sworn in as the Minister of City Planning, Water Supply & Higher Education. Rishard Bathiudeen as the Minister of Industry & Commerce, Resettlement of Protracted Displaced Persons, Co-operative Development, Vocational Training & Skills Development, Ameer Ali as the State Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Rural Economic Affairs and Buddhika Pathirana as the Deputy Minister of Industry & Commerce, Resettlement of Protracted Displaced Persons, Co-operative Development and Vocational Training & Skills Development.
Earlier the ministers, deputy ministers and state ministers resigned from their portfolios to provide space to carry out independent investigations into the Easter Sunday attacks. (Chaturanga Samarawicrama)