National People’s Power MP Dr. Harini Amarasuriya has been sworn-in as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, a short while ago.

She was sworn-in before President Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo.s

he is the third female Prime Minister in the history of Sri Lanka.

NPP parliamentarians Vijith Herath and Lakshman Nipunaarachchi were also sworn in as cabinet ministers, while President Dissanayake will hold the defence ministry and other portfolios.