C. V. Wigneswaran

(PTI) The Tamils want their distinct identity recognised by the majority Sinhalese, the Northern Province CM says. Sri Lanka’s Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran has said the Tamil minority community’s demand for a federal solution to meet their political aspirations was not aimed at dividing the country. “You [the South] think we [Tamils] are […]

Image:  Ezhuka Tamil in Batticaloa @shalin. Ezhuka Tamil – ‘Rise Tamil’ rally  which was held in Batticaloa 10th February  was attended by huge crowds carrying   flags of red and yellow the colors of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The offcial colour of the Ezhuka Tamil  is same as the LTTE. The rally was held in […]

CV Wigneswaran, the Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province, expressed doubts if the assassination story involving the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) senior parliamentarian M A Sumanthiran was an attempt by the government not to reduce the presence of military in the north. Wigneswaran, the hardline Tamil chief minister, said those arrested for the […]

How did the sitar-playing, sage-like Chief Minister of the Northern Province fall within the grasp and influence of Tamil nationalists and bankrupt politicians in only three years? And can the TNA bring him back into the fold? When Canagasabapathy Visuvalingam Wigneswaran took over as the country’s first democratically elected Chief Minister of the war-torn Northern […]

The majority of the Tamils believe that our rights are going to be sacrificed at the altar of convenience soon. Till today nothing concrete regarding what rights the Tamils are to receive under the new constitution have been conveyed to us. If there is going to be secrecy in formulating the proposals either the Sinhala […]

( Chief Minster Wigneswaran ) Northern province Chief Minster Wigneswaran has attacked NGOs working in the province for not obtaining permission form him or provincial council headed by him. According to a report in the HIndu ‘Mr. Wigneswaran has taken on NGOs, voluntary organisations and foreign agencies for seeking to implement several of their schemes […]

(SLB) Northern province chief minister Wigneswaran wanted to  discouraged mixed marriages between Sinhalese and Tamils until the minority Tamils attain parity with the majority Sinhalese in terms of rights. His two sons are remarried to Sinhalese upper class women. Mix marriages among the upper class of Sri Lanka has been in practice for a generations. […]

On 19 January a seminar had been held in Jaffna organized by the Swiss Institute for Federalism of Fribourg, Switzerland, on the invitation of the Chief Minister of the Northern Province, C. V. Wigneswaran. The local partner of the seminar was the Institute for Constitutional Studies (ICS) in Colombo. When the Chief Minister’s opening address […]

India has urged the Northern Province Chief Minister C. V. Wigneswaran to resolve the intra-party conflicts to facilitate the Government’s constitutional changes for the devolution of power as a political solution to the ethnic conflict. Mr. Wigneswaran admitted that an Indian envoy took up the issue with him during a one-on-one meeting at his office […]