| Second Sirimavo Bandaranaike cabinet | |
|---|---|
.svg){kind=small} 9th Cabinet of Ceylon | |
| Date formed | 29 May 1970 |
| Date dissolved | 23 July 1977 |
| People and organisations | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II (1970–72) |
| President | William Gopallawa (1972–77) |
| Prime Minister | Sirimavo Bandaranaike |
| Member parties |
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| Status in legislature | Majority coalition 116 / 151 (77%) |
| Opposition party | |
| Opposition leader | J. R. Jayewardene |
| History | |
| Election | 1970 |
| Outgoing election | 1977 |
| Legislature term | 7th |
| Predecessor | Dudley Senanayake III |
| Successor | Jayewardene |
The Second Sirimavo Bandaranaike cabinet was the central government of Ceylon led by Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike between 1970 and 1977. It was formed in May 1970 after the parliamentary election and it ended in July 1977 after the opposition's victory in the parliamentary election. The second Sirimavo Bandaranaike cabinet saw Ceylon severing the last colonial ties with Britain as the country became a parliamentary republic in May 1972. The country was also renamed Sri Lanka.
By July 1970, a Constitutional Assembly replaced the British-drafted constitution with one drafted by the Ceylonese. Policies were introduced requiring that permanent secretaries in the government ministries have expertise in their division. For example, those serving in the Ministry of Housing had to be trained engineers, and those serving in the Ministry of Health, medical practitioners. All government employees were allowed to join Workers Councils and at the local level, she established People's Committees to allow input from the population at large on government administration. The changes were intended to remove elements of British colonisation and foreign influence from the country's institutions.
The Cabinet was made up of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and the Communist Party of Sri Lanka in a coalition government as the United Front. Key members of the LSSP were given cabinet roles, including Leslie Goonewardene, N. M. Perera, Colvin R. de Silva and others. The LSSP was dismissed from the cabinet by Bandaranaike in September 1975, ending the United Front, and in February 1972 the Communist Party also left the government.
Cabinet members
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Parliamentary secretaries and deputy ministers
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| Name | Portrait | Party | Office | Took office | Left office | Refs | |
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| A. L. Abdul Majeed | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | Deputy Minister of Information and Broadcasting | |||||
| C. A. Atapattu | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Post and Telecommunication | |||||
| B. H. Bandara | Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction | ||||||
| Neal de Alwis | Deputy Minister of Finance | 1 October 1975 | 4 February 1977 | ||||
| Vivienne Goonewardene | Lanka Sama Samaja Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Local Government | 1970 | 1975 | |||
| T. B. M. Herath | Deputy Minister of Transport | ||||||
| Lakshman Jayakody | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | Deputy Minister of Defence and External Affairs | |||||
| S. D. R. Jayaratne | Deputy Minister of Fisheries | ||||||
| Albert Kariyawasam | Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries | ||||||
| V. T. G. Karunaratne | Deputy Minister of Posts and Telecommunications | ||||||
| H. M. Navaratne | Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Lands | ||||||
| Siva Obeyesekere | Deputy Minister of Health | ||||||
| P. R. Ratnayake | Deputy Minister of Trade | ||||||
| G. W. Samarasinghe | Deputy Minister of Social Services | ||||||
| Ratna Deshapriya Senanayake | Deputy Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs | ||||||
| Deputy Minister of Plan Implementation | |||||||
| Senerath Somaratne | Deputy Minister of Irrigation, Power and Highways | ||||||
| Hemachandra Sirisena | Deputy Minister of Labour | ||||||
| B. Y. Tudawe | Communist Party | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Education | 1977 | ||||
| Deputy Minister of Education | February 1977 | ||||||
| Ratnasiri Wickremanayake |  |
Sri Lanka Freedom Party | Deputy Minister of Justice | 1970 | 1975 | ||
| M. M. Mustapha | Deputy Minister of Justice | 1975 | 1997 | ||||
| D. P. Wickremasinghe | Deputy Minister of Shipping and Tourism | ||||||
References
- "Prime Ministers". Parliament of Sri Lanka.
- ^ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 21: A further lack of perspicuity". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Archived from the original on 27 January 2002.
- ^ Sri Lanka Year Book 1975 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 18–19.
- ^ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 24: Tamil militancy – a manifestation". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Archived from the original on 13 February 2002.
- ^ "List of Ministers and Deputy Ministers". Ministry of Finance. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015.
- ^ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 22: 'Only God Can Save the Tamils'". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Archived from the original on 16 April 2002.
- Encyclopedia of Sri Lanka. New Dawn Press INC. 2005. ISBN 9781932705485.
