Former General Secretary of the UNP Tissa Attanayake who crossed over to the government after pledging his support to President Mahinda Rajapaksa for the upcoming presidential poll, took oaths as a Health Minister today, Thursday, December 11.

He took oaths at the President’s House in Kandy.

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