Ramesh Pathirana

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Ranil Wickramasinghe
Dinesh Gunawardena
Preceded byNavin Dissanayake
Succeeded byMahinda Amaraweera
Minister of Education
In office
18 April 2022 – 9 May 2022
PresidentGotabaya Rajapaksa
Prime MinisterMahinda Rajapaksa
Preceded byNavin Dissanayake
Succeeded bySusil Premajayantha
Member of Parliament
for Galle District
Assumed office
2010
Personal details
Born (1969-05-12) 12 May 1969 (age 54)
Political party
Richmond College (Sri Lanka), University of Peradeniya
ProfessionPhysician

Ramesh Pathirana is a

Richmond College, Galle and University of Peradeniya. He is a physician by profession and is the son of former Education and Higher Education minister Richard Pathirana
.

Political career

He was appointed as Minister of Plantation Industries and Export Agriculture on 22 November 2019.[4][5]

He was appointed as Minister of Plantation on 12 August 2020 by the SLPP government.[6][7]

Political Interference in the Police

After the 20th Amendment to the Sri Lankan Constitution reduced the independence of the police Ramesh Pathirana was accused by other SLPP MPs of assuming the power of the police chief. SLPP legislator Chandima Weerakkody claimed that all police transfers were done according to letters sent by Pathirana where many OICs were appointed according to political ties rather than merit where many inexperienced officers were promoted over senior experienced officers. Thus the police was incapable of handling the mass violence that occurred when loyalists of Mahinda Rajapaksa including those brought by Pathirana attacked peaceful protestors on 9 May 2022. The resulting retaliatory riots destroyed many houses of Rajapaksa loyalists including that of Pathirana as the politicised police was incapable was handling the situation.[8]

Elections

Elected to parliament first in 2010.[9]

In the 2020 general elections held on 5 August 2020 he won the highest preferential votes of 205,814 in the Galle district.[10]

Notes

  1. Minister of Transport and Industries

References

  1. ^ "Cabinet reshuffle: New health and environment ministers appointed". Ada Derana. 23 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  2. ^ "President appoints new 17-member Cabinet". www.adaderana.lk. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  3. ^ "RAMESH PATHIRANA". Directory of Members. Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  4. ^ "Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka\'s interim cabinet under new President sworn-in". www.colombopage.com. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  5. ^ "New Cabinet sworn in - Sri Lanka Latest News". Sri Lanka News - Newsfirst. 2019-11-22. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  6. ^ "Sri Lanka President appoints cabinet ministers, state ministers". EconomyNext. 2020-08-12. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  7. ^ "නව ඇමැති මණ්ඩලය". www.lankadeepa.lk (in Sinhala). Retrieved 2020-08-12.
  8. ^ "Sri Lanka's ex-minister assumed police chief's powers". EconomyNext. 2022-05-19. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  9. ^ "14th Parliament of Sri Lanka", Wikipedia, 2020-06-15, retrieved 2020-08-07
  10. ^ Pathirana, Ramesh (7 August 2020). "Preferential votes of Galle District released". www.adaderana.lk. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
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