Shehan Semasinghe | |
Native Name: | අසංක ෂෙහාන් සේමසිංහ அசங்க ஷெஹான் சேமசிங்க |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office: | Minister of State for Finance |
Term Start: | 8 September 2022 |
Alongside: | Ranjith Siyambalapitiya |
President: | Ranil Wickremesinghe |
Primeminister: | Dinesh Gunawardena |
Office1: | Minister of Trade |
President1: | Gotabaya Rajapaksa |
Primeminister1: | Mahinda Rajapaksa |
Term Start1: | 18 April 2022 |
Term End1: | 9 May 2022 |
Successor1: | Nalin Fernando |
Office2: | Minister of State for Samurdhi, Household Economy, Micro Finance, Self Employment and Business Development |
President2: | Gotabaya Rajapaksa |
Primeminister2: | Mahinda Rajapaksa |
Term Start2: | 12 August 2020 |
Term End2: | 3 April 2022 |
Office3: | Minister of State for Development Banking and Loan Schemes |
President4: | Gotabaya Rajapaksa |
Primeminister4: | Mahinda Rajapaksa |
Term Start4: | 27 November 2019 |
Term End4: | 12 August 2020 |
Constituency Mp5: | Anuradhapura District |
Parliament5: | Sri Lankan |
Term Start5: | 2010 |
Birth Date: | 13 November 1976 |
Nationality: | Sri Lankan |
Party: | Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna |
Otherparty: | Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance |
Asanka Shehan Semasinghe is a Sri Lankan Politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka from Anuradhapura. He belongs to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna.[1] [2] He is currently serving as Minister of State for Finance, serving with Ranjith Siyambalapitiya since 8 September 2022.[3] Following the mass resignation of the Sri Lankan cabinet in the wake of the 2022 Sri Lankan protests, he was appointed as the Minister of Trade by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 18 April 2022.[4] [5] He left office on May 9 following the resignation of then Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and thereby the collapse of the government.