KP in Lanka north campaign will worry India: Wickremesinghe

The appearance of Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP, the LTTE's former arms procurer, on the government's election campaign would worry India, main opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said today.
Addressing a religious event here, the United National Party leader said, "KP is a wanted man in India for the Rajiv Gandhi assassination. No wonder that India would be unhappy with Sri Lanka."
KP - the man who succeeded the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran - after his demise in the government's military campaign later came to be arrested by the government in Malaysia.
He is currently an ally of the Rajapaksa government.
KP took part in the government campaign yesterday where he attacked the main Tamil party TNA of trying to deceive the Tamils in the north.

TNA is widely regarded the favourite to win the northern provincial council election to be held on Saturday.
KP, wanted by India as one of the suspects in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination of 1991, was for years the LTTE's international arms procurer and a trusted lieutenant of Prabhakaran.