Worries are mounting in New Delhi about
intelligence reports of the strong prospect
of an attack on the Congress Party leader
Sonia Gandhi, her children, and other top
political leaders of India by the LTTE,
during the current election time in India.
The Indian Home Ministry has issued an alert
urging the tightening of security when Sonia
Gandhi and her two children Rahul and
Priyanka, already among the most highly most
highly protected public figures in India,
canvass for support for the Congress party
and its allies in the current campaign for
elections to the LoK Sabha.Although the alert was not specific on the
nature of the threat, security analysts in
India see a major threat from the LTTE as
the intelligence warnings say that Sonia
Gandhi and her two children could be
attacked because of India not pressuring
Colombo to implement a ceasefire with the
LTTE. The threat also covers other prominent
Congress leaders.
It will be recalled that in May 1991, former
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, husband
of Sonia and father of Rahul and Priyanka,
was assassinated by a suicide killer of the
LTTE when canvassing for the Lok Sabha polls
in Sriperimpudur, Tamil Nadu. The LTTTE used
a woman suicide killer for the
assassination. The LTTE leader Velupillai
Prabhakaran and its Intelligence Chief Pottu
Amman are still wanted by the Indian Courts
in connection with this assassination.
Indian intelligence sources are also
concerned by the inflammatory language being
used by key LTTE supporters and
secessionists in Tamil Nadu, as the LTTE
faces defeat from Sri Lankan troops fast
advancing on the narrow strip of land where
it continues to hold Tamil civilians
hostage.
The “Hindu” has reported, April 09, in a
speech delivered on Wednesday (08),
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK)
leader V. Gopalswamy, also known as Vaiko,
warned of large-scale secessionist violence
if Sri Lankan forces killed LTTE chief V.
Prabhakaran.
He also made a reference to the
assassination of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
in Sriperumbudur, and warned India of a
secessionist movement if it did not push for
an end to Sri Lanka’s anti-LTTE campaign.
The Hindu states the MDMK polemic isn’t the
sole cause for concern among the
intelligence services. Facing annihilation
in Sri Lanka, many analysts fear, the LTTE
could unleash violence within India to
coerce its political leadership and create
conditions where it could set up safe havens
in Tamil Nadu.
In recent weeks, the LTTE has succeeded in
slowing down the offensive Sri Lankan
military operations by using the civilian
population in the Mullaitivu region as human
shields, the Hindu states.
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