‘I’m not a politician, I only wish to serve my suffering people’
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Well-known for his fiery speeches since retiring from the Supreme Court in 2004 and now stepping into the court of politics, as the TNA’s Chief Ministerial candidate for the upcoming NPC election, Justice Wigneswaran shares little known aspects of his life with Namini Wijedasa
He may have made a career out of music, had his mother not pushed him to study Law. Canagasabapathy Viswalingam Wigneswaran is still an accomplished sitar player. The retired Supreme Court Judge was, last week, named Tamil National Alliance’s (TNA) Chief Ministerial (CM) candidate for the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) election.
“My mother was the one important cause for me to take up Law, because that was such a passion on her part,” smiled Justice Wigneswaran, at his residence in Cambridge Terrace, Colombo 7. “But there is another interesting story.”
If his mother had not pushed him in the legal line Justice Wigneswaran could very well have been a sitarist. Pic by Nilan Maligaspe
While waiting for the results of an important school examination, his mother, Athynayaki, visited a Buddhist priest in Kolonnawa, who was renowned for his astrological predictions. She showed him her son’s chart and asked him whether the boy would pass his test.
“Mey apey lamayekda?” (Is he one of our children?) the priest had asked.
