LTTE plans to attack PM,Home Minister,TN CM: DGP

According to an intelligence input,some cadres of the LTTE,were trying to regroup in India and planning attacks on top political leaders.

After being virtually wiped out,terror group LTTE is trying to regroup and planning to target high-profile personalities like Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,Home Minister P Chidambaram and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi in Tamil Nadu.

“We received an alert from a central agency about a possible threat to the Prime Minister,to the Chief Minister and his cabinet in Tamil Nadu and to several other VVIPs who may visit the state”,Tamil Nadu DGP Lethika Saran said.

Based on this information,she said,the state has been put on high alert and “we have strengthened the intelligence machinery to check if there is any truth in the matter”.

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Saran said the state government would take all possible measures to ensure the visits of any VVIP to Tamil Nadu,including the Prime Minister or our own Chief Minister,is carried on without any hitch”.

According to an intelligence input,some cadres of the LTTE,who escaped the wrath of the Sri Lankan Army during the all-out operations in the island nation earlier this year,were trying to regroup in India and planning attacks on top political leaders,particularly when they travel in Tamil Nadu.

The security agencies have taken the input seriously as former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by LTTE suicide squad members in the southern state in 1991.

Prime Minister Singh is likely to visit Tamil Nadu next month to attend some public functions.

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“Though LTTE is now a weak force and all top leaders were killed during the Sri Lankan Army’s assault,attempts to regroup by some cadres is a disturbing report,” an official said.

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