Northern Province CM C.V.Vigneswaran takes oath before President Rajapaksa
– By Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Sudath Silva –
The newly elected Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Vigneswaran was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Northern Province before President Mahinda Rajapaksa at 9.30 am this morning (07 October) at Temple Trees. He took oaths as a member of the northern provincial council and later as the chief minister.
Former Supreme Court judge Wigneswaran has been selected as the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Chief Minister of the Northern Province following the landslide victory at the recently held Provincial Council Elections for the Province. As the TNA chief candidate at the election, Vigneswaran obtained the highest preferential votes in the Jaffna District with a total of 132,255 votes.
Religious leaders headed by Maha Sangha, Prime Minister D.M Jayarathne, Ministers, Maithripala Sirisena, Dallas Alahapperuma, Douglas Devananda, Rauf Hakeem, DEW Gunasekara, Vasudeva Nanayakkara, Governor of Northern Province G.A. Chandrasiri, TNA leader R. Sampanthan, Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga, several parliamentarians, family members of the newly appointed Chief Minister Vigneswaran and many dignitaries were present at the function.
Earlier Northern Province Governor Major General (retired) G.A. Chandrasiri appointed Vigneswaran to the Chief Minister post of the Province on October 01 and Mr. Vigneshwaran accepted his appointment letter from the Governor.
Pictures are seen here Northern Province Chief Minister Vigneshwaran receiving his appointment letter from President Mahinda Rajapaksa and being greeted by Ministers and other dignitaries at the oaths ceremony at Temple Trees.
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I am glad that CVV made the right decision in backing out from the original demand of the TNA for Hon President of SL to come to his feet in Jaffna for him to be sworn in as the CM. TNA has to remember that SL is ONE COUNTRY AND ONE NATION. TNA demands through India for full implementation of the illegal 13th amendment will be met with all-island stiff resistance.
Plan:
1. Supreme Court to order the illegal 13th ammendment forced on SL to be scrapped.
2. Referundum to be held to scrap this evil legislation and the vile PC system which is a white elephant costing the country dear.
3. All PCs to be scrapped.
4. SL to return to Local Govt in the provinces as before which costs less and does more substantial work fo the people.
5. Military bases to remain through out SL, including in Jaffna.
6. China to be granted Trinco to build a naval base over a 100 year lease, for the defence of SL against our enemies as well as help SL to develop on fast track.
During the election campaign, Mr Wickneswara went to the birth place of the late Sun God and placed flowers at his home and spoke of him as a Mahaveera.
With this unpatriotic, unconstitutional and traitorius act, Mr Wickneswara earned the votes in the recent elections.
His Election Manifesto is being challenged in the Supreme Court and the courts are most likely to declare that document as seditious and as a result, declare the winners at the NPC as null and void.
Fearing this action, Mr Wickneswara and his federal Party colleagues have run to the temple Trees to prove their patriotism. These wolves in sheep’s clothing must be thrown to the vultures.
Yes! I fully agree with N.D.
Yes Mr.Dias you are right..We should not Trust TNA at all.