{"id":167819,"date":"2016-09-18T01:23:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T19:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=167819"},"modified":"2016-09-19T01:15:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T19:45:28","slug":"wiggie-wants-northern-governors-wings-clipped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wiggie-wants-northern-governors-wings-clipped\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiggie Wants Northern Governor\u2019s Wings Clipped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Minister of Northern Province <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=C.+V.+Wigneswaran&amp;x=4&amp;y=9\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">C. V. Wigneswaran<\/span><\/a> has urged the government to reduce the powers granted to the Governor and instead strengthen the power of the Provincial Council.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_95918\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Wigneswaran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95918\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-95918\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Wigneswaran-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Wigneswaran\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Wigneswaran-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Wigneswaran-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wigneswaran<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere are various administrative units in the province, I request the Prime Minister to abolish some of these units and instead vest the power entirely with the Provincial Council, as it is this unit that comprises of representatives of the public,\u201d he said while addressing an event at the Jaffna District Secretariat on Saturday which was held under the patronage of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister pointed out that at the moment the Northern Province is governed by three units; the Governor, the District Secretariat and the Provincial Council. \u201cThe first two are representatives of the President and they work in accordance to the Central Government, therefore there will always be contradictions and issues,\u201d Wigneswaran said.<\/p>\n<p>He called on the Government to strengthen the role of the Provincial Council by giving the Provincial Council to oversee all matters in relation to the province with a limited role given to both the Governor and the District Secretariat. \u201cThe Governor must not get involved in the administrative process. In India the Governor plays a very limited role, this should apply here. Both the role of the Governor and the District Secretariat must be limited and the powers vested to the Provincial Council should instead be strengthened,\u201d Wigneswaran added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":95918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wiggie Wants Northern Governor\u2019s Wings Clipped - 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\/wiggie-wants-northern-governors-wings-clipped\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wiggie Wants Northern Governor\u2019s Wings Clipped - 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