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Prime Minister of Sri Lanka: 1970: William Gopallawa: Chandrika Kumaratunga: Prime Minister of Sri Lanka: 1994: Dingiri Banda Wijetunga: Sirimavo Bandaranaike: Prime Minister of Sri Lanka: 1994: Chandrika Kumaratunga: Harini Amarasuriya: Prime Minister of Sri Lanka: 2024: Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Minister of Buddhasasana and Religious Affairs ...
Two women have become Prime Minister and one has gone on to become the President of Sri Lanka. Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the world's first female head of government on 21 July 1960, holding the post for a non-consecutive 17 years. Her daughter, Chandrika Kumaratunga, became Sri Lanka's first modern female head of state and president. [1]
It includes Government ministers of Sri Lanka that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Women government ministers of Sri Lanka" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 8 Dudley Senanayake cabinet III: 25 March 1965: 29 May 1970: Dudley Senanayake: United National Party: 9 Sirimavo Bandaranaike cabinet II: 29 May 1970: 23 July 1977: William Gopallawa (1972–1978) Sirimavo Bandaranaike: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 10 Jayewardene cabinet I: 23 July 1977: 7 September 1978: J. R. Jayewardene ...
In 2010, on the 50th anniversary of Bandaranaike's election as the world's first female prime minister, Sri Lankan parliamentarian Rosy Senanayake told the press that Sri Lanka had not made significant progress towards gender equality in politics: only 4.5 per cent of parliamentarians were women.
The parliament of the Sri Lanka has set of ministers. They are categorized either as the ministers of cabinet and non cabinet. According to the 19th amendment the number of cabinet ministers is limited to 28.
In Sri Lanka, the Cabinet of Ministers is the council of senior ministers responsible and answerable to the Parliament of Sri Lanka. The President is a member of the cabinet and its head. [1] The Dissanayake cabinet is the incumbent central government of Sri Lanka led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna: Minister of Education: 20 May 2022 [b] [1] Keheliya Rambukwella: Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna: Minister of Health and Water Supply: 22 July 2022: 23 October 2023 [1] Minister of Environment: 23 October 2023: 3 February 2024 [2] [3] Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: Minister of Justice, Prison Affairs ...