Hon.
Manusha Nanayakkara
MP
මනුෂ නානායක්කාර
மனுஷா நாணயக்கார
Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment[1]
Assumed office
20 May 2022
PresidentGotabaya Rajapaksa
Ranil Wickremesinghe
Prime MinisterRanil Wickremesinghe
Dinesh Gunawardena
Preceded byVidura Wickremanayake
Member of Parliament
for Galle District
Assumed office
2010
Personal details
Born (1977-09-24) September 24, 1977
Sri Lanka
Political partyUnited National Party (2023–present)
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (2020–2023)
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (2010–2020)
United National Party (until 2010)
Other political
affiliations		United People's Freedom Alliance (2010–2020)
United National Front (until 2010)
SpouseShanika Sooriyaarachchi
Alma materMahinda College, Galle
OccupationJournalist

Manusha Nanayakkara (born 24 September 1977) is a Sri Lankan politician, Cabinet Minister, and member of Parliament for the Galle District. He is a journalist by profession and was educated at Mahinda College, Galle.[2][3] He was appointed as the Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment on the 20 May 2022.[4]

On 20 May 2022, amidst the 2022 Sri Lankan protests and political crisis, Nanayakkara was sworn in as the Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment and officially became a member of the Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe led cabinet, against the wishes of his own party, the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB).[5] He and fellow minister Harin Fernando had subsequently been suspended from the SJB. Both ministers would later resign from their ministerial portfolios on 9 July 2022, but would again be reappointed to their same positions by President Ranil Wickremesinghe on 22 July 2022.[6] A year later, on 18 July 2023, the Working Committee of the SJB expelled Harin Fernando and Manusha Nanayakkara from the party.[7] Shortly afterwards, on 2 August 2023, Fernando and Nanayakkara were readmitted into the United National Party by the party's working committee.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Sri Lanka appoints nine new cabinet ministers". economynext.com. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  2. ↑ New Faces in parliament, Sunday Times
  3. ↑ Our languages, our heritage- President Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, Presnform
  4. ↑ "Nine new Ministers sworn in amid Sri Lanka crisis". The Hindu. 20 May 2022. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Nine more cabinet ministers sworn in".
  6. ↑ "New Cabinet of Ministers sworn in". www.adaderana.lk. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  7. ↑ "SJB decides to expel Harin and Manusha". www.adaderana.lk. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  8. ↑ bugsbunny (2023-08-02). "Harin and Manusha back in the UNP". Colombo Gazette. Retrieved 2023-10-19.


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