{"id":136902,"date":"2023-09-07T11:20:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=136902"},"modified":"2023-09-07T11:20:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:20:11","slug":"statement-by-mp-cv-wigneshwaran-needs-to-be-confronted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/09\/07\/statement-by-mp-cv-wigneshwaran-needs-to-be-confronted\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by MP.- CV. Wigneshwaran Needs To Be Confronted,"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Insight By Sunil Kumar<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>It seems rather high handed &nbsp;and irresponsible for Former Supreme<br>Court Judge and MP CV Wigneshwaran of no mean repute as a trouble<br>maker relative to Sinhala Tamil matters to make what appears to be a<br>latent threat to the Government of Sri Lanka based on the full<br>implementation of the 13th &nbsp;Amendment and needs to be confronted<br>relative to the high handed and authoritative nature of a statement he<br>has made as there seems to be an inciting nature to it beyond being an<br>idle threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There seems to be an angry &nbsp;public lobby against this statement,<br>questioning &#8220;Just who the hell is he to make such contentious remarks?<br>&#8221; and in all probabilities need to be warned to refrain from such<br>public statements against the Government as he seems to have forgotten<br>the capacity in which he has been entrusted with and the office he has<br>been appointed to and appears to have been a little (to put it mildly)<br>carried away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems questionable &nbsp;that &nbsp;in what capacity and what motivation does<br>Tamil Makkal Thesiya Kutani (TMTK) leader C.V. Wigneswaran, MP, have<br>to &nbsp;warn the Government of Sri Lanka not to create an environment that<br>may lead to the re-deployment of the Indian Army here.The Jaffna<br>District MP issued the warning at a media briefing held in Jaffna<br>recently.Has he stepped out of line relative to his responsibilities<br>and is he trying to create unforeseen problems in hinting at the<br>Indian Government&#8217;s readiness to send in armed forces which were once<br>sent back with tails between their legs or is this wishful thinking on<br>his part?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Declaring that the outcome of the ongoing efforts to settle the<br>North-East problem on the basis of the 13th Amendment to the<br>Constitution could be dangerous, the retired Supreme Court Judge<br>warned that India could redeploy its forces here in case of fresh<br>troubles in the region.Something he needs to be confronted about with<br>perhaps a severe &nbsp;admonition to watch his rhetoric and stay away from<br>matters he is in no capacity to comment on as the &nbsp;matter is being<br>dealt with fully by the Administration of Sri Lanka with the full<br>knowledge of the Indian Government where Wigneshwaran&#8217;s incisive<br>sounding statement is a mere embarrassment to India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Northern Province Governor was referring to the deployment<br>of Indian forces (July 1987-March 1990) in terms of the Indo-Lanka<br>Accord signed on July 29, 1987 under &nbsp;the instigation of New Delhi<br>almost like a veiled threat.<br>Pointing out the activities of other external powers here, the MP said<br>that &#8221; in case India sent its Army here, it wouldn\u2019t be easy to send<br>them back&#8221; another of his high handed statements that could easily<br>disrupt and possibly destroy the good rapport which &nbsp; presently exists<br>between then two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While acknowledging that there was no likelihood of a repetition of<br>July 1983 type violence Wigneswaran expressed fears of destructive<br>incidents in case the government tried to devolve powers in terms of<br>the 13th Amendment to the Constitution &nbsp;which is a mere figment of his<br>imagination nonetheless and not for him to comment on sans the<br>credentials for such.<br>Sri Lanka enacted 13th Amendment in late 1988 &nbsp;where to all intents<br>and purposes this should suffice towards the resolution of what it<br>means for Sri Lanka as harmony between the Majority and Minority where<br>there seems to be no question about the disparity that could throw<br>into imbalance what would be the outcome.<br>The Constitution and the Laws of the Land must prevail not the<br>frustrations of &#8216; flybyniters&#8217; &nbsp;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insight By Sunil Kumar It seems rather high handed &nbsp;and irresponsible for Former SupremeCourt Judge and MP CV Wigneshwaran of no mean repute as a troublemaker relative to Sinhala Tamil matters to make what appears to be alatent threat to the Government of Sri Lanka based on the fullimplementation of the 13th &nbsp;Amendment and needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunil-kumar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}