Ravindra Samaraweera
Honourable Ravindra Samaraweera MP | |
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State Minister of Labour and Trade Union Relations | |
Assumed office 9 September 2015 | |
President | Maithripala Sirisena |
Prime Minister | Ranil Wickremesinghe |
Project Minister of Social Welfare | |
In office 2001–2004 | |
President | Chandrika Kumaratunge |
Prime Minister | Ranil Wickremesinghe |
Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament for Badulla District | |
Assumed office 2015 | |
In office 1989–2010 | |
Personal details | |
Political party | United National Party |
Other political affiliations | United National Front |
Ravindra Samaraweera (or Ravi Samaraweera) is a Sri Lankan politician, the current state minister of Labor and Trade Union Relations[1] member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
Born to a leading political family in the Uva province Samaraweera is the long time United National Party organizer of the Walimada seat and leader of the Badulla District. He was a Deputy minister in the Ranasinghe Premadasa Cabinet and later a Project minister in the 2001 Ranil Wickramasinghe Government. In 2015 Samaraweera was appointed as minister in the Uva Provincial Council Under Harin Fernando. Samaraweera was also appointed the acting Chief Minister of Uva Province few times in the year 2015.
Samaraweera was elected to Parliament in 2015 after his party United National Party won the election to form a government.
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