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Centre alerts UP about threat from Tamil Tigers

The Uttar Pradesh government has issued a high alert following intelligence reports that two Tamil Tigers, one of them a France-based member of its suicide squad, plan to sneak into the northern Indian state to kill prominent political personalities.

The central government has asked the state administration to give adequate security to the leaders on the basis of reports of central intelligence agencies.

''The LTTE has revived plans to target political leaders while the identity of such leaders is not yet known,'' a communication to the state government says.

The plan, according to the communication, is coordinated by a Bangkok-based person named Radha alias Lokendra Rasa.

Indian intelligence agencies have come to know that Radha has directed two LTTE activists -- Jeeva and Seelan -- to carry out the plan. Jeeva, an LTTE suicide squad member, is based in France and holding French travel ducuments with Indian visa, possibly issued by the Indian embassy in Paris. Seelan, who stays in Bangkok, has been given a fake Indian passport by a person identified as Selvaraj.

The urgent message to the state government said these LTTE cadre had been asked to travel separately to Madras soon after executing the plan.

The message said the particulars available about the LTTE activists were ''inadequate'' and asked the state agencies to make efforts to get further particulars or photographs of Jeeva and Seelan. The only available identifications are that Jeeva would be using French travel documents and Seelan, an Indian passport doctored to fit his documents.

The communication has asked the state administration to keep a watchful eye on these individuals.

A state police spokesman said the state government had taken up the matter on ''high priority''. All districts had been directed to provide adequate security to prominent politicians of the state or those visiting the state.

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