10 October 2014 07:00 am
UPFA Nuwara-Eliya MP V.S. Radhakrishnan was sworn in as Deputy Minister of Botanical Gardens and Public Recreation before President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday,the Presidential Secretariat said.
On August 21, MP Praba Ganeshan was sworn in as the Deputy Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology,
and P. Digambaram as Deputy Minister of National Languages and Social Integration.
Deputy Economic Development Minister S.M.Chandrasena was sworn in as the Cabinet Minister for Special Projects in November 2013, and nine UPFA MPs were sworn in as deputy ministers in October 2013.
There are now ten senior ministers, 57 cabinet ministers, 41 deputy ministers and two project ministers