The Sri Lankan Freedom Party's senior vice president, Nimal Siripala de Silva on Thursday accused the chief minister of the Northern Province, C V Wigneswaran of inciting ethnic tensions during his speech at the mass Tamil rally on September 24, Ezhuka Tamil. 
“He must not make this kind of remarks which will inflame extremists in the North agitating for a separate state and those in the South who are attempting to create a fear psychosis among the people about the resurgence of LTTE separatism in the country. This government will not tolerate these,” he was quoted by the Daily Mirror as saying during a press conference in Colombo on Thursday. 
He called on the Tamil National Alliance to take "disciplinary action" against Mr Wigneswaran, stating that he had overstepped his mandate. 
“In the concept of devolution of power we have to think about what sort of situations that would arise if this sort of chief ministers come. My personal opinion is that we have to give thought to these when formulating a new constitution,” he added. 
"The SLFP has committed itself to protect the victory secured in 2009 and the peace which dawned thereafter," he said. “This political drama being enacted by Wigneswaran to collect a few points and satisfy LTTE sympathizers goes against the government's reconciliation efforts."
"I don’t understand why a man of his calibre who retired as a Supreme Court judge and appointed Chief Minister providing ethnically destructive weapons to extremists in the North and South. In the wake of these damaging utterances, the pro-LTTE website Tamil Net’ has said that both President Maithripala Sirisena and D.S. Senanayaka were both doing the same thing by attempting to resettle Sinhala people in the North and East."