Wigneswaran Met World Bank for Direct Funds to NPC – Violation of Constitution

The Chief Minister of Northern Province pro-LTTE Tamil terrorist’s political party TNA Wigneswaran had met the World Bank officials in New York. Although no details of the meeting were available it is widely suspect that direct funding to Northern Province financial arm recently sanction by the pro-minority Sirisena had been requested by Wignehswaran. In Sri Lanka, questions were raised by the policy makers and opposition to the pro-minority government over the issue of a Chief Minister holding direct discussions with international lending agencies and requating direct funds to one of the nine provinces in Sri Lanka. Confirming that the Chief Minister’s office had requested a meeting at the Bank while he was in the US capital, the Colombo office of the Bank said, “The World Bank would always respond positively for meeting requests of this nature. The Sri Lanka Country Director is currently in Washington and she and the Regional Vice President would be meeting him”. They added that the objective or reasons for the meeting have not been communicated. However, the Chief Minister’s office said that prior to his departure Northern Provincial Ministers had given him project proposals which he would be taking with him for discussions with the Sri Lankan American Diaspora in the US and World Bank seeking their assistance to invest in the Northern Province.

Nirmalan Karthikeyan, a former official of the UN Development Programme
(UNDP) and National Peace Council member, and Ex-LTTE Tamil terrorist member is accompanying the Chief Minister on his US tour. He holds an Australia passport and functions as ‘Diary Secretary, Executive Assistant and Advisor to the Chief Minister’. During the last round of peace talks between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE Tamil terrorists, he was a member of the LTTE terrorists team.

In the US, Chief Minister Wigneswaran had met Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswal. It is learnt that he had been told to work towards reconciliation, reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Northern Province rather than up his rhetoric on genocide charges.

In the US, a front organization of LTTE Tamil terrorists had hired a lobbying firm, Podesta Group, podestagroup.com to handle the visit of pro-LTTE Terrorist’s politician Wingeshwaran.

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