President swears in new Cabinet including UNP entrants
18 jumbos cross over:
PRESIDENT Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday appointed
10 UNP dissident MPs as Cabinet Ministers in the first Cabinet
reshuffle under his Presidency. Eight other UNPers who crossed over
to Government ranks were also sworn in as either Deputy or
non-Cabinet Ministers.
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Cross overs give Govt absolute majority - Media Minister
MEDIA Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said
yesterday that the Government now commanded an absolute majority in
Parliament after securing 113 seats with the cross over of a section
of the UNP and the SLMC into its ranks.
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10 year programme focus at Development Forum
THE Government's 10 year development plan and
the strategies adopted in its realisation will be the main focus of
discussion when the Sri Lanka Development Forum gets underway today
in Galle.
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