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Kotelawala cabinet | |
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3rd Cabinet of Ceylon | |
Date formed | 12 October 1953 |
Date dissolved | 12 April 1956 |
People and organisations | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Prime Minister | John Kotelawala |
Member parties | |
Status in legislature | Majority coalition (1953) 58 / 95 (61%)
Majority (1953–56) 54 / 95 (57%) |
Opposition party | |
Opposition leader | S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike |
History | |
Outgoing election | 1956 |
Legislature term(s) | 2nd |
Predecessor | Dudley Senanayake I |
Successor | S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike |
The Kotelawala cabinet was the central government of Ceylon led by Prime Minister John Kotelawala between 1953 and 1956. It was formed in October 1953 after the resignation of Kotelawala's predecessor Dudley Senanayake and ended in April 1956 after the opposition's victory in the parliamentary election.
Cabinet members
Parliamentary secretaries
Name | Portrait | Party | Office | Took office | Left office | Refs | |
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Senator H. de Z. Siriwardena | United National Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Home Affairs | 19 October 1953 | [3] | |||
M. D. H. Jayawardena | United National Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance | 19 October 1953 | 1 July 1954 | [3] | ||
V. Kumaraswamy | All Ceylon Tamil Congress | Parliamentary Secretary | |||||
V. Nalliah | United National Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Defence and External Affairs | 1953 | 1954 | |||
U. B. Wanninayake | United National Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance | 1 July 1954 | [3] | |||
C. E. Attygalle | United National Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health | |||||
Shirley Corea | United National Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Commerce, Trade and Fisheries | |||||
Ivan Dassanayake | United National Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Education | |||||
Captain C. A. Dharmapala | United National Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industries, Housing and Social Services | |||||
M. M. Ebrahim | United National Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Local Government | |||||
Major T. F. Jayewardene | United National Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labor | |||||
Major Montague Jayawickrama | United National Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport and Works | 1953 | 1954 | |||
Major Montague Jayawickrama | United National Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Defence and External Affairs | 1954 | 1956 | |||
N. H. Keerthiratne | United National Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Posts and Broadcasting | |||||
T. B. Panabokke | United National Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Food | |||||
V. G. W. Ratnayake | United National Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Lands and Land Development |
Notes
References
- ^ "Prime Ministers". Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 15: Turbulence in any language". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Archived from the original on 8 February 2002.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b c d e "List of Ministers and Deputy Ministers". Ministry of Finance. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015.
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