Tamil MP Sumanthiran’s STF guard withdrawn
ECONOMYNEXT – A troop of Special Task Force officers guarding Tamil National Alliance Member of Parliament M A Sumanthiran have been withdrawn the MP told reporters today.
“The STF guards who have been there since 2013 were removed last night,” he told the News Centre news service.
“I have not been given a reason for the withdrawal,” he added.
The guards had been removed around the time the P2P march by Tamil and Muslim Civil Society activists staged a rally in Polikandy.
The Commandos have been replaced with two Constables, he said.
Sumanthiran has faced numerous death threats in the recent past. In 2017, the police unveiled a plot by ex-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam cadres to assassinate him at a public event.