Ramesh Pathirana

Ramesh Pathirana is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and is serving as the current Minister of Education and Plantation Industries.[1] He belongs to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna.[2] He was educated at 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.

Hon.
Ramesh Pathirana
MP
රමේෂ් පතිරණ
ரமேஷ் பத்திரண
Minister of Education and Plantation Industries
Assumed office
18 April 2022
PresidentGotabaya Rajapaksa
Prime MinisterMahinda Rajapaksa
Preceded byDinesh Gunawardena[N 1]
Minister of Plantations[N 2]
In office
22 November 2019 – 18 April 2022
PresidentGotabaya Rajapaksa
Prime MinisterMahinda Rajapaksa
Preceded byNavin Dissanayake
Member of Parliament
for Galle District
Assumed office
2010
Personal details
Born (1969-05-12) 12 May 1969
Political partySri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
Other political
affiliations		Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance
Alma materRichmond College (Sri Lanka), University of Peradeniya
ProfessionPhysician

Political career

He was appointed as Minister of Plantation Industries and Export Agriculture on 22 November 2019.[3][4]

He was appointed as Minister of Plantation on 12th August 2020 by the SLPP government.[5][6]

Elections

Elected to parliament first in 2010.[7]

In the 2020 general elections held on 5th August 2020 he won the highest preferential votes of 205,814 in the Galle district.[8]

Notes
  1. As Minister of Education
  2. As Minister of Plantation Industries and Export Agriculture from 22 November 2019 to 12 August 2020

References
  1. "President appoints new 17-member Cabinet". www.adaderana.lk. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  2. "RAMESH PATHIRANA". Directory of Members. Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  3. "Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka\'s interim cabinet under new President sworn-in". www.colombopage.com. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  4. "New Cabinet sworn in - Sri Lanka Latest News". Sri Lanka News - Newsfirst. 2019-11-22. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  5. "Sri Lanka President appoints cabinet ministers, state ministers". EconomyNext. 2020-08-12. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  6. "නව ඇමැති මණ්ඩලය". www.lankadeepa.lk (in Sinhala). Retrieved 2020-08-12.
  7. "14th Parliament of Sri Lanka", Wikipedia, 2020-06-15, retrieved 2020-08-07
  8. Pathirana, Ramesh (7 August 2020). "Preferential votes of Galle District released". www.adaderana.lk. Retrieved 2020-08-07.


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