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Colombo: After Anura Kumara Dissanayake became the President of Sri Lanka, now the new Prime Minister has also taken oath. Harini Amarasuriya was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on Tuesday. She has become the third woman Prime Minister to hold this post after Sirimavo Bandaranaike in the year 2000. Let us tell you that 54-year-old leader of ‘National People’s Power’ (NPP) Amarasuriya was sworn in by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
Dissanayake has appointed a cabinet of four members including himself. Amarasuriya has been given the charge of the ministries of Justice, Education, Labor, Industry, Science and Technology, Health and Investment. He has replaced Prime Minister Dinesh Gunwardene, who resigned from his post after the presidential election. NPP MPs – Vijitha Herath and Lakshman Nipurnachchi were sworn in as Cabinet Ministers. They will work as caretaker Cabinet Ministers after the Parliament is dissolved. Officials said that parliamentary elections could be held in late November. After winning the presidential election, 56-year-old Dissanayake was sworn in as the ninth President of Sri Lanka on Sunday.
IMF will hold talks with the Dissanayake-led government
After Sri Lanka got a new President and Prime Minister, another good news has come out. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will now hold talks with Sri Lanka, which is facing economic crisis, regarding reforms. The IMF said on Tuesday that it is excited to work with the new government led by Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and will soon discuss the timing of the next review of the country’s loan program. The IMF said in a statement, “We look forward to working closely with President Dissanayake and his team to build on the hard-earned achievements that have helped Sri Lanka get out of its worst economic crises in 2022.”
The issue of ‘Easter Sunday’ has cropped up again after Anura Kumara was elected President
The ‘Easter Sunday’ jinx has come to the fore again as soon as the government changed after the presidential election in Sri Lanka. For this, the new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said on Tuesday that he would re-start the investigation of the 2019 ‘Easter Sunday’ terrorist attacks. Let us tell you that Dissanayake was appointed the President of the country on Sunday after winning the presidential election held last week. He made this remark during a goodwill conversation on the phone with Malcolm Cardinal Ranjit, the head of the Catholic Church.
Ranjit said, “The new President has assured us that the truth of the ‘Easter Sunday’ attacks will be brought out.” Ranjit has been a critic of the investigation into the attacks targeting big hotels and churches during Sunday prayers on the occasion of Easter. About 300 people, including foreign nationals, were killed in these attacks. Accusing both former presidents Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Ranil Wickremesinghe for the incident, Ranjit had criticized the investigation and said that an attempt was made to politically hide the attacks carried out by the local jihadist organization National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ).
The former president was found guilty in the earlier investigation
In the ‘Easter Sunday’ case, former President Maithripala Sirisena had formed a high-level investigation committee due to pressure from the church. Subsequently, Sirisena was found guilty in the investigation and he was ordered to pay compensation of 10 crore Saudi Riyals (27,443,756 Indian Rupees) to the families of the victims. The top officials of the then Defense Department were also found guilty of criminal negligence for ignoring the prior intelligence warnings given by India.
