Ravindra Samaraweera

Honourable Ravindra Samaraweera MP
State Minister of Labour and Trade Union Relations
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 September 2015
President	Maithripala Sirisena
Prime Minister	Ranil Wickremesinghe
Project Minister of Social Welfare
In office 2001–2004
President	Chandrika Kumaratunge
Prime Minister	Ranil Wickremesinghe
Member of Parliament for Badulla District
Incumbent
Assumed office 2015
In office 1989–2010
Personal details
Political party	United National Party
Other political affiliations	United National Front

Ravindra Samaraweera (or Ravi Samaraweera) is a Sri Lankan politician, the current state minister of Labor and Trade Union Relations member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.

Born to a leading political family in the Uva province Samaraweera is the long time United National Party organizer of the Walimada seat and leader of the Badulla District. He was a Deputy minister in the Ranasinghe Premadasa Cabinet and later a Project minister in the 2001 Ranil Wickramasinghe Government. In 2015 Samaraweera was appointed as minister in the Uva Provincial Council Under Harin Fernando. Samaraweera was also appointed the acting Chief Minister of Uva Province few times in the year 2015.

Samaraweera was elected to Parliament in 2015 after his party United National Party won the election to form a government.