List of Governors of Western Province

The Governor of the Western Province of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: බස්නාහිර පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයා Basnāhira palāth āndukāravarayā) is responsible for the management of the Western Provincial Council. Some of the office's key functions include exercising powers vested in the Governor by the Provincial Council Act No. 42 of 1987 amended by Act No. 28 of 1990 and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.[1]

Governor of Western Province
Incumbent
Roshan Goonatilake
since 24 March 2020
AppointerPresident of Sri Lanka
Term length5 Years
Inaugural holderSuppiah Sharvananda
Formation6 June 1988
Websitesecgov.wpc.gov.lk/en

Governors

  Independent   Sri Lanka Freedom Party   United National Party

No. Name Portrait Party Took office Left office Refs
1 Suppiah Sharvananda Independent 6 June 1988 10 June 1994 [2]
2 Deva Swaminathan United National Party 11 July 1994 1 December 1994 [2]
3 K. Vignarajah Independent 3 January 1995 2 January 2000 [2]
4 Pathmanathan Ramanathan Independent 21 January 2000 1 February 2002 [2]
5 Alavi Moulana Sri Lanka Freedom Party 1 February 2002 23 January 2015 [2]
6 K. C. Logeswaran Independent 23 January 2015 11 April 2018 [2][3][4][5]
7 Hemakumara Nanayakkara United National Party 12 April 2018 1 January 2019 [6]
8 Azath Salley United People's Freedom Alliance 3 January 2019 3 June 2019 [7]
9 A. J. M. Muzammil United National Party 4 June 2019 20 November 2019
10 Dr. Seetha Arambepola Independent 21 November 2019 19 March 2020 [8]
11 Roshan Goonatilake Independent 23 March 2020 Present

See also

References
  1. http://www.ep.gov.lk/govindex.asp
  2. "Sri Lankan Provinces from 1988". WorldStatesmen.org. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  3. "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Appointments & c., by the President" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1900/09. 2 February 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2015.
  4. "Three new governors appointed". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 23 January 2015.
  5. "New Governors". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 24 January 2015. Archived from the original on 25 January 2015.
  6. "New Governors take oaths before President Sirisena". sundaytimes.lk. The Sunday Times. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  7. "Azath Salley sworn in as Western Province Governor". Daily Mirror. 4 January 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  8. admin (2019-11-21). "New Provincial Governors appointed". Colombo Gazette. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
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