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* New Tourism Minister sworn in Sri Lanka
Thu, Nov 26, 2009, 09:02 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.

Nov 26, Colombo: Ratnapura District parliamentarian Achala Suranga Jagodage was sworn in today before President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees as the new Minister of Tourism.

The portfolio was left vacant by the resignation of Nandana Gunatilaka, the General Secretary of the breakaway Marxist party, National Freedom Front (NFF) from his party earlier this month.

Gunatilaka, the Kalutara District parliamentarian accepted the Tourism Minister portfolio in June 2009.

Secretary to the President Lalith Weerathunge was also present at the occasion.

(Pictures by Chandana Perera)

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