Sri Lanka official quits after taking back Adani deal remark

COLOMBO: A top Sri Lankan official, who claimed before a parliamentary panel that PM Modi allegedly influenced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to award a wind power project to the Adani Group, resigned on Monday, a day after retracting his earlier statement. The resignation of MMC Ferdinando, the chairman of state-owned power entity Ceylon Electricity Board, has been accepted.
Ferdinando, during a hearing of the Committee On Public Enterprises (COPE) on Friday, said Rajapaksa had summoned him after a meeting in November and told him that the project be awarded to the Adani Group of India’s billio