Ministers Rauf Hakeem and Rishad Bathiudeen are to attend this week’s Cabinet meeting after being sowrn in to their previously held portfolios last night before President Maithripala Sirisena.
Four Muslim MPs, who resigned from their Ministerial portfolios in June due to the tense situation in the country following the Easter Sunday attacks, re-accepted their ministerial portfolios last night.
Accordingly, Rauff Hakeem was sworn in as the Minister of City Planning, Water Supply and Higher Education, Rishad Bathiudeen as the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Resettlement of Protracted Displaced Persons, Co-operative Development and Vocational Training and Skills Development, Ameer Ali as the State Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Rural Economic Affairs and Abdullah Maharoof as the Deputy Minister of Ports and Shipping.
While all Muslim ministers resigned from their posts in June, UNP MPs Kabir Hashim and M. Haleem re-accepted their portfolios later on claiming they had to adhere to the calls made by the party hierarchy, but pledged to stand together with all Muslim MPs on common issues affecting the Muslim community.
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