Justice Wigneswaran Will Not Be Permitted To Return To Colombo – Ravana Balaya
September 12, 2013
The hardline group Ravana Balaya has warned that the TNA’s Chief Ministerial Candidate and former Supreme Court Justice, C.V. Wigneswaran would not be permitted to return to Colombo following the conclusion of the Northern Provincial poll, reports said.
Ravana Balaya
General Secretary of the Ravana Balaya movement, an ultra-right wing movement, Ithkande Saddhatissa Thero said the TNA election manifesto was unconstitutional and illegal. The group handed over a petition to the Elections Commissioner yesterday, citing grounds for why the TNA manifesto was a threat to Sri Lanka’s sovereignty.
Speaking to journalists later the Ravana Balaya representatives said Wigneswaran and his party were ready to establish a separate state in the country by seeking land, police, education and financial powers for the north and east.
By the end of the election, Justice Wigneswaran will not be permitted to return to Colombo, the Ravana Balaya General Secretary warned.
Justice Wigneswaran is a resident of the capital Colombo and spent most of his life in the city.
by Sulochana Ramiah Mohan-Thursday, 12 Sep 2013
Governor of the Northern Province, Maj. Gen. G.A. Chandrasiri, maintained he has the right to be in any part of Sri Lanka as he is representing President Mahinda Rajapaksa, and he is not concerned about the allegations that he is participating in election propaganda for the ruling party in the Northern Province. "People are stupid to listen to what the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), which is contesting in the North, is saying. I have the power and I can go anywhere with anybody. I travel with the President and his brother, Minister of Economic Development, Basil Rajapaksa, on various occasions, who are toiling to develop the North. I have to be there when they are present in the North.
"I am not bothered even if my propaganda work has been referred to the Human Rights Commission. There is no law to stop me from travelling around the Northern Province, for which I am the Governor. I have the political right as I am representing the President," he said lambasting the media reports that highlighted his participation in the election campaigns.
Meanwhile, Commissioner of Elections, Mahinda Deshapriya, said he is in a 'fix' as the ruling party claims Northern Province Governor Chandrasiri has the political rights to get involved in the propaganda work for the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA), claiming that he is a representative of President Rajapaksa, whereas the opposition parties claim, under the elections law, a State official cannot get involved in political campaigns.
"There are two opinions from the ruling and the opposition parties about the Northern Province Governor's involvement in the election campaign and I cannot do anything against these two opinions and now the matter has been referred to the Human Rights Commission to decide," he said.
