Unknown attackers stoned the house of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) councillor in the Northern Province, Ms Ananthy Sasitharan, in the early hours of Tuesday, threatening the NPC councillor and her three children while they were sleeping at their residence located at Vadakkam-parai in Chuzhi-puram in Valikaamam West, Jaffna. Ms Ananthy and her children narrowly escaped from a stone that went through the window inside the house. The attack comes after Ms Sasitharan warned a local media, DAN TV, which backs Colombo regime, that she would be filing legal suit against misusing her name in their advertisement.
Both the intelligence unit of the occupying SL military of Rajapaksa regime and elements backing the common opposition candidate Maithiripala Sirisena have been harassing Ms Ananthi Sasistharan, who recently told media that she would be intentionally discarding her vote on the election day and abstain from voting for any of the main candidates in the presidential election.
On Monday, DAN TV was broadcasting a false advertisement as if Ananthi had sponsored an advertisement on the pro-Rajapaksa channel urging the public to boycott the elections. The move was intended to cause confusion among the public.
In the meantime, the exiled convenor of the Free Media Movement, Sunanda Deshapriya has tweeted an article, which was apparently written by him in a blog site with a cynical attempt to cause discredit to Ananthy Sasitharan by linking her to Douglas Devananda through a Tamil diaspora activist, sources close to the NPC councillor told TamilNet on Tuesday.
