{"id":110891,"date":"2013-10-20T00:05:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T18:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=110891"},"modified":"2013-10-26T05:41:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T00:11:38","slug":"wigneswarans-framework-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wigneswarans-framework-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wigneswaran\u2019s Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Malinda+Seneviratne+&amp;x=14&amp;y=5\">Malinda Seneviratne<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105560\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sunila-abeysekera-and-the-prerogatives-of-the-displaced\/malinda-seneviratne-150x150\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-105560\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105560\" title=\"Malinda-Seneviratne-150x150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Malinda-Seneviratne-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malinda Seneviratne<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ex-judge <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=C.V.+Wigneswaran&amp;x=10&amp;y=4\">C.V. Wigneswarn<\/a><\/span> is now a politician.\u00a0 These are early days of his political career.\u00a0 Early days are typically made of words.\u00a0 Time will tell us more of \u2018deed\u2019 and the distance these have to rhetoric.\u00a0 We are not talking of the campaign rhetoric, which typically tends to gravitate to vote-getting imperatives.\u00a0 It is well known that manifestos are junked after election and mandates re-worded to match ambitions and justify decisions.\u00a0 Even in this sense we are still in \u2018early days\u2019 as far as Wigneswaran and the Northern Provincial Council are concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Considering all this, it is important to give the man breathing space, to overlook tendentious utterance and in general accord him the benefit of the doubt.\u00a0 In these \u2018early days\u2019, Wigneswaran, even his most vocal detractors must admit, has succeeded in painting himself as a different kind of politician; time will tell whether he warrants the tag \u2018Statesman\u2019, for this requires a lot of deed to go with the lot-of-word the man is made of.\u00a0 He has nevertheless made some pertinent and refreshing pronouncements.<\/p>\n<p>His outcome-preferences notwithstanding (one never known \u2018true intent\u2019 and he cannot do worse than other politicians, seasoned or otherwise, belonging to whatever community, whatever party), Wigneswaran has clearly spelled out the parameters of democratic and civilized process as the non-negotiables.\u00a0 In other words, if preferred outcomes are not yielded by the processes permitted by this operational frame, Wigneswaran would say \u2018hard luck!\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>What is this frame?<\/p>\n<p>Addressing members of the Northern PC among others, Wigneswaran mentioned that \u2018the times of violence have been crossed\u2019 and that everyone must understand that those days are past.\u00a0 More importantly he outlined seven principles he presumably envisages adhering to during his tenure: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.\u00a0 He said, \u2018Those who are involved in public duty have to embody the above principles in their personal lives and set an example to others\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He may have borrowed from John Major and indeed Major\u2019s politics, domestic and foreign, was a far cry from these sentiments, but that\u2019s incidental; C.V. Wigneswaran may have had his work cut out for him, but he has cut out for himself the principles that will frame his approach.<\/p>\n<p>These are of the easy-to-say kind, the cynics will no doubt observe.\u00a0 The Northern PC is however a \u2018new baby\u2019 and it is heartening that the first-steps are being taken in the right direction and whatever one\u2019s opinion may be with respect to the TNA, provincial councils, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=13th+Amendment+&amp;x=7&amp;y=5\">13th Amendment<\/a><\/span> or devolution, Wigneswaran must be applauded for saying the must-be-said.<\/p>\n<p>These principles are wholesome and profitable; they are valid not just for the Northern PC but for all PCs and indeed at all levels of Government, especially at the center.\u00a0 Disappointments and failures can be attributed to multiple reasons, but it is clear that the lack pertaining to the principles Wigneswaran has outlined cannot be ruled out as being non-contributive.<\/p>\n<p>Some may claim that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Prabhakaran&amp;x=10&amp;y=6\">Prabhakaran<\/a><\/span> recovered for the Tamil community its collective \u2018manhood\u2019. If one were to put aside the arrogance and pernicious patriarchy associated with the term, not to mention what that \u2018manhood\u2019 did in dismembering Tamil society, one can say that Wigneswaran has given new and better meaning to the word.\u00a0 It is now incumbent on all stakeholders (and these are not limited to Tamils, not limited to residents of the province) to support him.\u00a0 With word. With deed.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Malinda Seneviratne is the Chief Editor of \u2018The Nation\u2019 and his articles can be found at www.malindawords.blogspot.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":105560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wigneswaran\u2019s Framework - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wigneswarans-framework-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wigneswaran\u2019s Framework - 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