Sri Lanka's first elected Tamil chief minister of Northern Province takes oath

 C V Wigneswaranwas on Monday sworn in as the first elected Tamil chief minister of Northern Province - the stronghold of the vanquished rebel LTTE - weeks after his party secured a landslide victory in the historic polls held after nearly three decades.

Wigneswaran, 73, took oath before PresidentMahinda Rajapaksa at a function held at Temple Trees, the presidential house.

Wigneswaran, a former Supreme Court judge, was nominated as the chief minister following the landslide victory of the country's main Tamil party, Tamil National Alliance (TNA), at the elections held on September 21.

On October 1, Northern Province Governor Maj Gen (retd) G A Chandrasiri appointed Wigneswaran to the post.