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| Friday, 16 July 2004 |
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Sabaragamuwa PC Maheepala Herath will be sworn in as the new Chief Minister of the Sabaragamuwa Province before governor C.N. Saliya W. Mathew at the governor's office in Ratnapura New Town today, July 16 at 9.30 a.m. Herath will assume duties on the same day and religious ceremonies to invoke blessings on him will also be held at the Sabaragamuwa Maha Saman Devale in the same morning, said Sabaragamuwa Chief Secretary Piyatissa Ranasinghe in a press release issued yesterday. He will be the eighth Chief Minister of the Sabaragamuwa Province. Earlier he was a Cabinet Minister in the PA government. After 2004 general elections he was appointed Deputy Minister of Transport in the Freedom Alliance government. Herath resigned from his Parliamentary seat and the Deputy Minister's post, to contest the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council election from the Kegalle district as the Freedom Alliance Chief Ministerial candidate. He was elected with 84,486 preferential votes, which is the highest number of preferences polled by any candidate in the Sabaragamuwa province. He obtained a majority of 49,081 votes over Amal Nandasena who came second in the Freedom Alliance list. As Chief Minister he will also function as the co-Chairman of the Co-ordinating committees of Kegalle and Ratnapura districts.
Southern PC by Kahawa special correspondent Shan Wijayalal de Silva, Chief Minister elect, for the Southern Provincial Council, will take his oaths as the Chief Minister before Southern Province Governor, Kingsley T. Wickramaratne today, (16) at Galle. De Silva When interviewed at his Polwatta residence said: "I intend to render a better service to the region as the Chief Minister henceforth, with the blessings of the President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga". I was elected to the SPC in 1993, for the first time and hence worked as the deputy chairman and again as the chairman for the past five years". My old school was Ambalangoda Dharmasoka College, and later gained admission to Moratuwa University for higher education, and during that time engaged in politics through the students' union there", he said. "After leaving Moratuwa University I joined Sri Lanka Customs and worked for 12 years, he said. Thereafter in 1981 I was appointed as the SLFP Chief Organiser for Ambalangoda by the late SLFP leader, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike and continue in the same capacity until now", he said. |
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