Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the Parliament of Sri Lanka

The Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees is a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka (and its predecessors the National State Assembly, the House of Representatives and the State Council) who presides over sittings of Parliament in the absence of the Speaker.^[1] The current deputy speaker and chairman of committees is Rizvie Salih.

Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
ශ්‍රී ලංකා පාර්ලි‌මේන්තු නියෝජ්‍ය කථානායක பாராளுமன்ற துணை சபாநாயகர்
Emblem of Sri Lanka
Flag of Sri Lanka
Incumbent Rizvie Salih since 21 November 2024
Style	Honourable Deputy Speaker
Appointer	Parliament of Sri Lanka
Constituting instrument	Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Inaugural holder	Forester Augustus Obeysekera
Formation	7 July 1931; 93 years ago (1931-07-07) (as Deputy Speaker of the State Council of Ceylon)
Deputy	Deputy Chairman of Committees
Website	www.parliament.lk

List of Deputy speakers and chairmen of committees

Parties

  Independent   United National Party   Sri Lanka Freedom Party   All Ceylon Tamil Congress   Mahajana Eksath Peramuna   Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna   National People's Power

Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees

Name		Portrait	Party	Took office	Left office	Legislature	Refs
	Forester Augustus Obeysekera		Independent			State Council	[2][3][4]
	Susantha de Fonseka		Independent				[5][6]
	R. A. de Mel		United National Party	14 October 1947	23 August 1948	House of Representatives	[7][8]
	H. W. Amarasuriya		United National Party	2 September 1948	14 December 1948		[7][8]
	Albert Peries		United National Party	15 December 1948	13 February 1951		[7][2][8][9]
	H. S. H. Ismail		Independent	14 February 1951	8 April 1952		[7][2][9]
				10 June 1952	18 February 1956		[7]
	Piyasena Tennakoon		Sri Lanka Freedom Party[10]	20 April 1956	16 September 1958		[7]
	R. S. Pelpola		Sri Lanka Freedom Party[11]	18 September 1958	5 December 1959		[7]
				30 March 1960	23 April 1960		[7]
	Hugh Fernando		United National Party[12]	5 August 1960	23 January 1964		[7][2][13][14]
	D. A. Rajapaksa		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	11 February 1964	12 November 1964		[7][15][16][17]
	Shirley Corea		United National Party	5 April 1965	17 September 1967		[7][2][9][18][19]
	Razik Fareed		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	28 September 1967	28 February 1968		[7][20][21]
	M. Sivasithamparam		All Ceylon Tamil Congress	8 March 1968	25 March 1970		[7][2][22][23][24]
	I. A. Cader		Sri Lanka Freedom Party[25]	7 June 1970	22 May 1972		[7][26][27]
				22 May 1972	18 May 1977	National State Assembly	[7]
	M. A. Bakeer Markar		United National Party	4 August 1977	7 September 1978		[7][28][29]
	Norman Waidyaratne		United National Party	21 September 1978	20 December 1988	Parliament	[7][30][31]
	Gamini Fonseka		United National Party	9 March 1989	24 June 1994		[7][32][33]
	Anil Moonesinghe		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	24 August 1994	18 August 2000		[7][34][35]
				14 September 2000	23 September 2000		[7]
	Sarath Munasinghe		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	18 October 2000	10 October 2001		[7][36][37][38][39]
	Gitanjana Gunawardena		Mahajana Eksath Peramuna	18 May 2004	1 July 2008		[7][40][41][42]
	Piyankara Jayaratne		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	8 July 2008	9 February 2010		[7][43][44][45]
				9 March 2010	20 April 2010		[7]
				22 April 2010	22 November 2010		[7][46]
	Chandima Weerakkody		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 November 2010	26 June 2015		[7][47][48]
	Thilanga Sumathipala		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	1 September 2015	8 June 2018		[7][49][50][51][52]
	Ananda Kumarasiri		United National Party	8 June 2018	2 March 2020
	Ranjith Siyambalapitiya		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	20 August 2020	6 May 2022
	Ajith Rajapakse		Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna	17 May 2022	24 September 2024		[53][54]
	Rizvie Salih		National People's Power	21 November 2024	Incumbent