An Open Letter to Chief Minister, Northern Province

An Open Letter to Chief Minister,

Northern Province

Chief Minister C.V. Vigneswaran

It is very much appropriate to remind you at this moment that you are at helm of the Northern Provincial Council as a result of the voters of the Northern Province, emanating a Himalayan trust on the backdrop of you were a Chief Justice, and you were only known as Justice Vigneswaran, but an unknown element as politician. Therefore the people who voted you into the office of CM, expected and believed that you will execute your duties towards the people very honestly, with reflection to the demands and need of the people. An attitude of all the time and at any time for the people will not push you to faults and blunders.

I am drawing your attention, in particular to one issue, to which you have approached in a very delinquent manner, without realizing the seriousness as well as long run consequences of the issue that will affect the present generation as well as the generations to come. On the whole it will affect the entire community as a respectable ethnic group within their own land and completely shake the whole foundation of the Tamil Nationalistic identity. 

Do not pretend that you don’t know what I am talking about. I am just referring to the way you handled the entire crisis of central peninsula well water getting contaminated by spent oil, pumped into the soil with total ignorance to agriculture and bio-environment.  When information about the wells contaminated and polluted by hydrocarbon emancipated, with thirty long years of judicial service of judicious jurisdiction behind you, what you should have done is to appraise the affected parties’ complaints through your commonsense and natural senses; leave alone the huge deleterious impact on bio life of central peninsula, which otherwise should have been the prime concern as the Chief Minster.

On the contrary, to public’s believes and expectations, you have called in the accused party within your chambers, at arms stretched length rather the than the “desperately affected phenomenon” of Jaffna Peninsula.

Therefore, I strongly opine that you have inherited this fraudulent practice all along your carrier despite being seated on an isolated and elevated seat of judicious jurisdiction in a court room for thirty long years. After all now you are occupying the seat of usually occupied by many notorious, uneducated and unethical politicians and thus you can achieve your personal goals of filling up the coffers with much ease and comfortable, than with previous job of authority of jurisdiction. Hence you are truly smart enough to change the job titles from Chief Justice to Chief Minister in order to make the ends meet with scant respect to ethnic identity!

When some truly worrying professional experts of relevant field met you after you and your council have autocratically, otherwise by fraud dispelled the reports of contamination and pollution water /fertile soil you have told them that you are prioritizing Tamil Nationalistic aspirations through this issue! Nonsense, A human count alone cannot survive the identity of the ethnicity!!  First of all you must understand that fertile soil and abundant fresh water are intrinsic foundation for the Tamil Nationalistic aspirations.

All your actions clearly points out that you are working hand in hand conniving with southern racial fanatics with an objective of destroying the survival  of Tamils as an respectable ethnic group within their own land. All your calls towards Tamil National Ethnic Issues have become uttering of ostentatious  nature by your action, like that of the southern Sinhala Politicians take the sword of racism in order to guard against their fraudulent and corrupt practices.

You have become an ostrich of the desert land when you decided to manipulate the water contamination crisis through appointing handpicked eye washing “experts” of utilizable water pollution, with your mind already fixed for an ill directed  analysis on water that has been already smelling hydrocarbon and visibly contaminated by oil seeped through soil. You have made all the highly qualified people you handpicked look like fools in order to protect the Northern Power Plant out of the way, by your Desert Ostrich action – the ostrich buries its head into the desert soil and imagine that whole world is not seeing anything! Mind you if the Northern Power Plant continues pump the brunt hydrocarbon into the soil unabatedly – as you have painstakingly comforted NPP to do so – highly fertile land Jaffna Peninsula would soon become land of Desert where only ostriches can survive!!  Above statement is absolutely vindicated when one analysis the composition of the panel you picked to fabricate and consciously refute the fact that wells have polluted by spent fuel, which is very much conspicuous by visibility and odour – the panel

Names	Specializations
1.      Dr. A. Atputharajah	Electrical Engineer, Consultant NPP
2.      Dr. K. Velayuthamoorthy	Inorganic Chemist
3.Dr. Nalina Gnanavelrajah	Agriculture-chemist Land use
4.Dr. C.N. Nachchinatkiniyan	Community Medicine
5. Prof S.A. Nobert	A Geographer – Colombo
6. Dr. T. Jeyasingam	VC Eastern University,  Botanist
7. Prof. S. B. Weerakoon	Hydrologist, Peradeniya University
8. Prof. R.V.K Piyadasa
9. Dr. S. Raveentran

 It is established that no one in the above list holds the required qualification to negate the complaints of polluted water springs and that itself clearly vindicates your motives. In addition your first choice in above list Dr. A. Atputharajah has been contracted as a Consultant Electrical Engineer by the disputed Northern Power Plant (NPP) when you appointed him into the panel that is purportedly verifying the pollution of fertile soil and as a result water springs as well by the NPP’s waste Hydrocarbon oil. Dr. A. Atputharajah as Dean Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna and as Consultant NPP has failed miserably to advise his pay masters  on safely disposing the dangerous disposals born out of Electricity Generation.  Absolutely dangerous to mankind!      

You may argue that for the need of continued electricity supply that you have to support and defend the NPP, but just through the stroke of a pen you would have asked them to safely remove the burnt oil pond that had been gradually built over the years and to install a mechanism to remove the burnt oil day by day without just pumping into the soil, if you are judicious enough to properly execute that is expected of your office, since the NPP being a complete private entity.  
 Instead what did you do, you allowed NPP to hurriedly hide the entire accumulated burnt oil pond through a bore deep into the ground, and everything got worsened!

From your actions and from the behaviour of Dr. A. Atputharajah as Dean Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna who had acted with a clear conflict of interests for the greediness of pay roles, with total disregard to the mankind, It amply clear and proves that autonomous to the provinces and to the Universities would play havoc and it will continue to spread damaging and destroying natural resources of humanity.    

Coming back to the your eye wash panel, Prof. S. B. Weerakoon, a Hydrologist was the closest to the required qualification from University Peradeniya, though not exactly, I strongly doubt that  he would have contributed anything tangibly to your course though you have inserted the name may be through the friendship acquired through court chamber days of your earlier carrier. 

Anyway, if I assume that you have acted with some transparency and purity, Prof. S. B. Weerakoon would have led the panel – and it is a fact beyond any doubt the panel submitted a more than 50 page report, but has been summarized to mere 4 pages by your council of ministers in concurrence with ideas of Dr. A. Atputharajah, for the purpose of publishing, in order to complete the eye wash!

You shouldn’t have appointed experts to negate the reports of water polluted visibly and by the odour conspicuously of hydrocarbon, Instead you should have sought for expertise in   alternatives for fueling thermo power plant (there are many) if you are executing prudently  and really genuine to the people who elected you to the post of Chief Minister.

Many countries are using collected waste as direct fueling for thermo power plants, make a visit to one of many states of USA, UK, Norway, Holland, China, Japan, South Korea or Vietnam along with your coaxer friend Dr. A. Atputharajah – and introduce the technology to Northern Province, which have multifaceted benefits, including abundantly available cheap fueling and facilitates solid waste management with huge profits if properly planned and executed. By the way it is reported that Sri Lanka Fairway Group has just embarked on making fertilizer and generating electricity with garbage at the new dumping site Karadiyana, Pelliyandela  and you may get in touch with that company as well.

I pray the Lord Aarumugam to bless and make the damage you all have done to Jaffna Peninsula to be temporary in nature for the sake of the people who had been tormented by thirty years of war!  

Thank You

With Best Regards

Dr. S. Mahadeva