{"id":45146,"date":"2016-02-13T19:56:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T23:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45146"},"modified":"2016-02-13T19:56:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T23:56:49","slug":"tna-may-unseat-northern-chief-minister-by-moving-no-trust-motion-against-wigneswaran-in-tna-dominated-provincial-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45146","title":{"rendered":"TNA May Unseat Northern Chief Minister by Moving No Trust Motion Against Wigneswaran in TNA Dominated Provincial Council"},"content":{"rendered":"

By P.K.Balachandran <\/strong><\/p>\n

The ideological and political rift between the Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran and the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government in Colombo appears to be widening, with Wigneswaran\u2019s efforts to maintain cordiality being half-hearted and perfunctory.<\/p>\n

The Tamil Peoples\u2019 Council (TPC), which Wigneswaran had created in December 2015, had proposed a constitutional scheme for Sri Lanka which no government in Colombo would touch with a barge pole.<\/p>\n

The TPC demands a constitutional set-up based on \u201cshared sovereignty\u201d in which two \u201csovereign\u201d entities, the Tamil \u201cnation\u201d and the Sinhalese \u201cnation\u201d, come together to form a federation.<\/p>\n

The TPC\u2019s scheme does not envisage \u201cdevolution\u201d in which the Centre is the main repository of sovereignty, and it only \u201cdevolves\u201d power to the Tamil province. <\/p>\n

In the TPC\u2019s scheme, two separate sovereign entities pool their sovereignties to form a whole. It\u2019s a deal between equals. <\/p>\n

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Wigneswaran had formed the TPC because he felt that his own party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), had developed a cozy relationship with Colombo, \u201cbetraying\u201d the Tamils\u2019 struggle for self-determination. The TPC\u2019s constitutional proposals are meant to publicly embarrass the TNA, as much as they are an ideological assault on Colombo\u2019s political sensibilities. <\/p>\n

As part of the standoff, on February 12, Wigneswaran stayed away from a function in Jaffna to inaugurate the website of the National Consultation on Reconciliation Mechanisms, in which Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera and the TNA leader M.A.Sumanthiran shared the dais. On February 11, Wigneswaran failed to appear at a dinner hosted by the Foreign Minister. The Chief Minister did attend a tea party given by the out-going Governor, HMGS Palihakkara, but left in five minutes.<\/p>\n

Irked with Wigneswaran for floating a rival radical outfit (albeit in the garb of a civil society movement), and claiming to have won the 2013 provincial elections on his own steam, the TNA is threatening to move a no-confidence motion against him in the Provincial Council. <\/p>\n

The threat is real because on February 9, the Council, dominated by the TNA, unanimously passed a no-trust motion against Wigneswaran\u2019s follower, Agriculture Minister P.Ayingaranesan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the CM does not take action against Ayingaranesan, we may have to consider a no-trust motion against the CM himself,\u201d a top TNA leader told Express on Saturday.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Courtesy:Mew Indian Express<\/em><\/p>\n

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By P.K.Balachandran The ideological and political rift between the Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran and the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government in Colombo appears to be widening, with Wigneswaran\u2019s efforts to maintain cordiality being half-hearted and perfunctory. The Tamil Peoples\u2019 Council (TPC), which Wigneswaran had created in December 2015, had proposed a constitutional scheme for Sri Lanka which …<\/p>\n

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