{"id":69796,"date":"2017-09-15T14:46:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T21:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=69796"},"modified":"2017-09-15T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T21:46:03","slug":"chief-minister-wignesvaran-and-federalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/09\/15\/chief-minister-wignesvaran-and-federalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Minister Wignesvaran and Federalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><u><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">P.A.Samaraweera<\/span><\/u><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">This week the Chief Minister of the Northern Provincial Council, Mr\u00a0C.V. Wignesvaran (CV) had a meeting with the Mahanayake of the Malwatte Chapter and the Maha Sanga of Asgiriya. During these discussions, he had said that he wanted Federalism for the North. He had also added that the best option is to confer\u00a0Federal status to Provincial Councils. For a small country like Sri Lanka where there are different nationalities why should there be Federal states? It appears that the creation of Provincial Councils itself was a disaster. It is a costly exercise and has only given more jobs to politicians. \u00a0If they are granted Federal Status with land and police powers it would create\u00a0more problems to the Central govt. Further, we cannot ignore the fact that\u00a0Tamil Nadu is not that far from Sri Lanka. And it is no secret that our Tamil politicians\u00a0rush to Tamil Nadu leaders about their &#8216;grievances&#8217; and Tamil Nadu politicians are manipulative. So CV&#8217;s demand for Federalism is nothing but a stepping stone for separatism.\u00a0As Federalism is a &#8216;sensitive&#8217; topic both the UNP and the SLFP\u00a0have avoided bringing it up since independence.\u00a0The majority of the people are for a unitary\u00a0state and CV&#8217;s demand for a Federal state is for 12 per cent of the population.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Then CV had said that the Sinhalese do do not trust the Tamils. In\u00a0fact, the Sinhalese trust the Tamils but not Tamil politicians, especially the former LTTE activists now in the political arena in the North, who are not giving enough support for the reconciliation process. CV had also made representations about &#8216;intimidating military pressure&#8217; in the North\u00a0and\u00a0demanded total withdrawal of the armed forces. During the tail-end of the war, the army saved more than 300,000 tamils who were running away from\u00a0the LTTE as they had been\u00a0brutally treated. CV who lived safely in Colombo 7\u00a0then, has become critical of the army now and pose as a saviour of the Tamils !<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.A.Samaraweera This week the Chief Minister of the Northern Provincial Council, Mr\u00a0C.V. Wignesvaran (CV) had a meeting with the Mahanayake of the Malwatte Chapter and the Maha Sanga of Asgiriya. During these discussions, he had said that he wanted Federalism for the North. He had also added that the best option is to confer\u00a0Federal status [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drpasamaraweera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69796","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=69796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}