Ravindra Samaraweera

Ravindra Samaraweera (or Ravi Samaraweera) is a Sri Lankan politician, the current Cabinet Minister of Labour and Trade Union Relations and former cabinet minister of Wildlife and Sustainable Development [1] and former state minister of Labor and Trade Union Relations[2] member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.

Hon.
Ravindra Samaraweera
MP
Minister of Labour and Trade Union Relations
In office
01 May 2018 – 26 November 2019
PresidentMaithripala Sirisena
Prime MinisterRanil Wickremesinghe
Preceded byJohn Seneviratne
Minister of Wildlife and Sustainable Development
In office
25 February 2018 – 1 May 2018
PresidentMaithripala Sirisena
Prime MinisterRanil Wickremesinghe
Preceded byGamini Jayawickrama Perera
Succeeded bySarath Fonseka
State Minister of Labour and Trade Union Relations
In office
9 September 2015 – 25 February 2018
PresidentMaithripala Sirisena
Prime MinisterRanil Wickremesinghe
Project Minister of Social Welfare
In office
2001–2004
PresidentChandrika Kumaratunge
Prime MinisterRanil Wickremesinghe
Member of Parliament
for Badulla District
Assumed office
2015
In office
1989–2010
Minister of State for Food and co-operatives
In office
18 February 1989 – 1 May 1993
PresidentRanasinghe Premadasa
Prime MinisterDingiri Banda Wijetunga
Personal details
NationalitySri Lankan
Political partyUnited National Party
Other political
affiliations		United National Front
SpouseSita Samaraweera
RelationsPercy Samaraweera
ChildrenShanil
Alma materSt. Thomas' College Guruthalawa
OccupationPlanter
ProfessionPolitician

Born to a leading political family in the Uva province Samaraweera is a long time United National Party organizer of the Walimada seat and leader of the Badulla District. He was a Deputy Minister in the Ranasinghe Premadasa Cabinet and later a Project minister in the 2001 Ranil Wickramasinghe Government. In 2015 Samaraweera was appointed as minister in the Uva Provincial Council Under Harin Fernando. Samaraweera was also appointed the acting Chief Minister of Uva Province few times in the year 2015 while serving as the minister in the council. In 2018 he was given the cabinet Minister of Wildlife and Sustainable Development.[3]

Samaraweera who was a member of parliament from 1989 to 2010 was re-elected to Parliament in 2015 after his party United National Party won the election to form a government.

Personal life

Samaraweera is the nephew of Percy Samaraweera former Chief Minister of Uva Province. He is married to Sita Samaraweera and they have five children.

References
  1. "Cabinet Reshuffle – Sri Lanka News Times". Archived from the original on 2018-02-28. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  2. "New State and Deputy Ministers sworn in".
  3. "Cabinet Reshuffle – Sri Lanka News Times". Archived from the original on 2018-02-28. Retrieved 2018-02-28.


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