A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Saturday, June 17, 2017
Sumanthiran explains ‘no confidence’ against Wigneswaran
June 16, 2017
The Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) claims that Chief Minister of
the Northern Province C.V. Wigneswaran had attempted to ‘dilute’ the
findings of guilt against a provincial minister who was his close
confidant, by sacking all four ministers of the provincial council.
ITAK Assistant General Secretary M.A. Sumanthiran, in an exclusive
interview with Ada Derana, today revealed the actual reason behind ITAK
members of the Northern Provincial Council presenting a no-confidence
motion against the Chief Minister to the Governor of the Northern
Province.
The background to this is that there were serious allegations of fraud
and corruption against one particular minister and it is the ITAK
members who asked the Chief Minister to inquire into that, he said.
“They even passed a resolution in the Northern Provincial Council requesting the Chief Minister to do this,” Sumanthiran said.
However, he charged, without doing that the Chief Minister constituted
an inquiry panel of his own and asked all four ministers to face
inquiries, which they did.
But at the end of the day, the minister with allegations against him was
found guilty of fraud and corruption while one other minister was found
guilty of administrative irregularities, the TNA MP said.
“Our position was both those ministers should have been removed and we
asked the Chief Minister to take immediate action against them.”
“After delaying this for a long time, the Chief Minister tried to remove
all four by which he tried to minimize or dilute the findings of guilt
against that one minister who was his close confidant,” he said.
It is against that act that the members of the ITAK have acted and given a motion of no-confidence, Sumanthiran said.
“If the Chief Minister will change his ways and act only against those
found guilty, then ITAK members will reconsider their position. If not
the Chief Minister will be removed from his office.”