The Chairman of Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), M M C Ferdinando has resigned days after he alleged before the parliamentary panel that Prime Minister Narendra Modi influenced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to award a wind power project to the Adani Group in this island nation.

The top Sri Lankan official’s resignation was announced by the Sri Lankan power and energy minister Kanchana Wijesekera on Twitter. He wrote that Ferdinando’s resignation had been accepted and that he would be replaced by the vice-chairman as the head of Sri Lanka’s Central Electricity Board (CEB).