Sri Lanka President Anura Dissanayake has appointed the following ministers to run the National Peoples Power administration after sweeping the general elections with a two thirds majority.

A government of the National Peoples' Power will not mis-use its two thirds mandate to harm Sri Lanka's citizenry but will work towards expanding their freedoms and equality, President Anura Dissanayake said after appointing a 21 cabinet ministers.

Sri Lanka's NPP coalition led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake secures historic electoral victory, resonating with ethnic minorities.

The working class will rapidly come into conflict with the JVP/NPP government, which while posturing as anti-establishment, is a right-wing communalist party committed to imposing IMF austerity.

The left-leaning alliance of Sri Lanka's new leader has secured a landslide victory in the country's snap parliamentary elections. Official results show President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's National People's Power (NPP) coalition scored a two-thirds majority in parliament,

The parliamentary polls — held seven weeks after he emerged victorious in presidential voting — reinforced the remarkable shift in Sri Lankan politics, where mainstream parties that led the country for decades have been reduced to the margins as people put faith in a political outsider to bring about transformative change.

The left-leaning coalition of newly elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won 159 of the legislature's 225 seats