{"id":109306,"date":"2013-10-09T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T18:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=109306"},"modified":"2013-10-14T13:58:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T08:28:45","slug":"north-elections-were-held-thanks-to-india-wigneswaran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/north-elections-were-held-thanks-to-india-wigneswaran\/","title":{"rendered":"North Elections Were Held Thanks To India: Wigneswaran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northern\u00a0Chief Minister <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=C.V.+Wigneswaran&amp;x=13&amp;y=5\">C.V. Wigneswaran<\/a><\/span> says\u00a0India played an instrumental role in ensuring the holding of polls in the\u00a0Northern Province and it must now assist in rebuilding the war-ravaged region.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/north-elections-were-held-thanks-to-india-wigneswaran\/wigneswaran-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109309\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-109309\" title=\"Wigneswaran\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Wigneswaran--150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Wigneswaran--150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Wigneswaran--50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Thanks to India, the Northern Provincial Council elections were held. I am here because India almost had a hand in the elections being held when the (Sri Lankan) government as saying we are not going to have it or we are going to crap the 13th amendment and so on,&#8221; he told the Indian media in Jaffna, one day after he was sworn in as the country&#8217;s\u00a0first elected northern\u00a0chief minister.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Not that India brought me in but India, in an indirect way, was instrumental in allowing the provincial council elections to take place after 25 years,&#8221; said Wigneswaran, who won a a massive number of preferential votes in last month&#8217;s election.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Wigneswaran said the Government had held elections and because they were held, he was able to win.<\/div>\n<div>Ahead of his meeting with External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, he called on India to follow up by helping the development of the region.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;How best India can help us is a technical matter, but India&#8217;s help in the war-torn society is absolutely essential. 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