{"id":45449,"date":"2016-02-27T20:28:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T00:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45449"},"modified":"2016-02-27T20:28:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T00:28:40","slug":"chief-minister-wignesewaran-defends-northern-minister-ayngaranesan-over-11-charges-of-corruption-amounting-to-40-million-rupees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45449","title":{"rendered":"Chief Minister Wignesewaran Defends Northern Minister Ayngaranesan Over 11 Charges of Corruption Amounting to 40 Million Rupees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/p>\n<p>Though the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) earned a name for passing a record number of resolutions in the recent past, this week the councillors were at loggerheads when Chief Minister C.V. Wigneshwaran moved a resolution against a resolution that had already been passed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the reason for submitting his own resolution was that one of the provincial ministers had been falsely accused of corruption charges. At a previous council sitting, a resolution was passed against Ponnuthurai Ayngaranesan, Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Services. The resolution made eleven corruption charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>The council decided that there should be a full probe. The resolution alleged that the minister was involved in a fraud amounting to Rs. 40 million.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> This week, Chief Minister Wigneswaran moved a resolution requesting the council to remove the earlier resolution from the council\u2019s Hansard since he believed the allegations were baseless. Mr. Wigneswaran informed the council that the minister had written a letter, explaining the issues and as Chief Minister he had a right to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>The debate over the Chief Minister\u2019s resolution went on for two hours. There were heated arguments between two factions.<\/p>\n<p>One of the councillors quipped that the council sittings had become like an \u201cIndian mega serial drama\u201d \u2014 a never ending action-packed episode.<\/p>\n<p>The debate on the resolution ended without a decision like in the teledramas.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Sunday Times<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton45449\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D45449&amp;text=Chief%20Minister%20Wignesewaran%20Defends%20Northern%20Minister%20Ayngaranesan%20Over%2011%20Charges%20of%20Corruption%20Amounting%20to...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) earned a name for passing a record number of resolutions in the recent past, this week the councillors were at loggerheads when Chief Minister C.V. Wigneshwaran moved a resolution against a resolution that had already been passed. He claimed that the reason for submitting his own resolution was that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=45449\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Chief Minister Wignesewaran Defends Northern Minister Ayngaranesan Over 11 Charges of Corruption Amounting to 40 Million Rupees&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45450,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45449\/revisions\/45450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}