NPC ready to exercise police, land powers; CM Wigneswaran tells inaugural session
Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran told the inaugural meeting of the recently elected Council that he was ready to exercise police and land powers granted to the PCs by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution
The Northern Provincial Council began its session in a building at Kaithady in Jaffna after a grand ceremony conducted in accordance with Hindu cultural rituals.
After the election of the Chairman and the Vice Chairman, Mr. Wigneswaran, a retired Supreme Court Justice, said that he was prepared to discuss any problems that could arise with any party in order to find a solution.He said his objective was to deploy a majority of Tamil speaking police officers in the province and to either reduce or remove the unlimited presence of security forces there under powers entrusted to the Council step by step.
The Chief Minister said internal self-determination was possible within a united Sri Lanka. He said his administration would extend a hand of friendship to the Central Government with the expectation of reciprocity.
Mr. Wigneswaran called for the replacement of the present northern governor with a civil official who understands the needs and aspirations of the Tamil people. Asserting that Muslims who were evicted from the North would be rehabilitated as a foremost task under his administration, he said people who were never residents of the North should not be resettled in the province under state-sponsored colonization schemes.
(Courtesy: The Island)
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This bearded wizard resembles the late Mr Bin Laden.
The Supreme Court has determined tha land powers lie with the Central Givernment and not Provicial Councils. Cannot understand why the bearded wizard cannot understand the SC decision. Maybe because it was not available in his beloved language, the Tamil language, which he used when taking oaths.
Now, the bearded wizard is raising not existent, Utopian ideas, which his master, the Late Mr Prabaharam, pursued ruthlessly pushing boys and girls to the frontline as suicide bombers while hiding in the Vanni Concrete Bunker.
The bearded man has also called for removal of the NP Governer. This modaya does not understand that Governer is appointed by the President. This modaya cannot call for the Governer’s removal.
The bearded madman and his separatist mates in the TNA now see an opportunity because the British PM is going to the North during CHOGM. We also remember Mr Chris Patton visting the Sun God when the Sun God was demonising the whole world. Likewise, Mr Cameron is going there to get Tamil votes in the forthcoming British elections.
LTTE became again northern rules.This provincal politicals power and cheif minister system should cancel otherwise big trouble aheads!!!!
The red spot in between the two eyes is probably marked for a target !
This idiot has said “… people who were never residents of the North should not be resettled in the province under state-sponsored colonization schemes.”
It is only your entitled opinion. Our entitled opinion is different. There is no law to say your opinion is any better than mine. Sorry, bad luck.