Ravindra Samaraweera

Honourable
Ravindra Samaraweera
MP
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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