Retired SC judge Wigneswaran: A New Tamil Moses

By C. Wijeyawickrema -July 26, 2013

“Solutions to world’s problems could be found via Buddhism” -Dr. Abdul Kalam & Ms. Prathibha Patil (Ex-Indian Presidents)

Wigneswaran-a blessing in disguise

I thought of a Moses title to this essay because Ratanajeevan Hoole from his hiding place in USA made a comment that Wigneswaran (W) starts and ends his talks with something in Sanskrit that no one in the audience understands. Hoole is in the habit of criticizing Hindu Vellalas stating that he is a Pentecostal Christian belonging to a “lower” Tamil caste in Jaffna. But as a professed “Tamil Moderate” he is still happy with the TNA decision to “force” Wigneswaran (W) to contest for the NPC-CM job. Some others write to Colombo Telegraph website stating that it was divine intervention that a retired SC judge is coming forward for the first time. They do not know that there were Christian QCs in the Tamil Arasu Kachchi (Tamil State Party) in the past, and SJV Chelvanayagam was a QC whose best friend was the  then CJ of SC, one Jayatileka. The difference this time with W is that he knows Sinhala and Sanskrit and he is not a Colombo Christian. Hence, a Wigneswaran Damanaya in the Buddhist tradition will be much easier.

Wigneswaran-with-Sambanthan

The currents and undercurrents that “forced” W for this job are the Christian establishment and Christian Tamils, Marxists, and the elite Christian Sinhalese in Colombo. W’s candidacy is similar to that of Sarath Fonseka’s in 2010. In each case the International king-makers were behind in picking them up. Wimal Weerawansa thought two embassies were behind it. But Daya Master who is on the field has identified them as foreign spies linked with some TNA parties. W was one of the “Tamil moderates” (the so-called reasonable Tamils) living in Colombo. The concept of a Tamil moderate is a creation by Robert Blake and the Norwegian agents, and these “moderates” are moderates only until they become separatists! Anandasangaree, the father of Tamil moderates has now joined the TNA candidates’ list. W’s talk after his “forced” conversion to become a TNA man is very different from his prior moderate incarnations. Is W the new Tamil Moses in an environment of resurgent Buddhist awakening exemplified so well by the highly popular Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Movement? BBS says “come and examine (discuss), not come and believe.” We can invite (“force?”) this new Moses to come for a new kind of a Great Panadura Debate (of 1873).

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