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Demonstration staged against Sri Lankan MP

MADURAI: Eight persons, including an advocate belonging to the Naam Tamilar movement, allegedly displayed their black T-shirts as a mark of protest when Sri Lankan Member of Parliament Nirupama Rajapaksha arrived at a private hotel here on Monday.

Police sources said that the MP, cousin of the Sri Lankan President, was in the city to offer darshan at Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple with her husband. On their arrival from Rameswaram, they checked in at the hotel at 3.20 p.m. At around 3.45 p.m. the agitators shouted slogans against the Sri Lankan government and removed their shirts. Sporting black colour T-shirts, which had LTTE leader Prabakaran’s portrait, they shouted slogans against the Sri Lanka government for killing innocent Tamils in the island nation.

The Subramaniapuram police removed them from the spot. Further investigation is under way.

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