Adani Enterprises wind power project caught in Lankan political crossfire

A 500-megawatt (Mw) wind power project awarded to Adani Enterprises in March has become a bone of contention between ruling and opposition parties in Sri Lanka.

The controversy over the Adani investment in the neighbouring nation stems from domestic power politics in which a bureaucrat has become collateral damage.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (pictured) denied a claim made by Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) chief M M C Ferdinando before Sri Lanka’s parliamentary committee of public enterprises that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had influenced the decision to award a wind power project to the Adani group without tendering and other considerations.

Ferdinando