Lankan official at centre of Adani controversy quits

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Updated At : 12:48 PM Jun 14, 2022 IST

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New Delhi, June 13

A top Sri Lankan official, who claimed before a parliamentary panel that PM Narendra Modi allegedly influenced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to award a wind power project to the Adani Group in this island nation, 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 (CEB), has been accepted, energy minister Kanchana Wijesekara said on Monday.

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