NSG cover for Karunanidhi

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, JULY 19. The former Chief Minister and DMK president, Mr. M. Karunanidhi, is to be provided security cover by the National Security Guards (NSG) very soon.

The Union Home Ministry took the decision and offered this special protection to Mr. Karunanidhi in the wake of the recent developments in Tamil Nadu.

The details are being worked out, and specially-trained NSG commandos will be flown in from New Delhi to provide round-the- clock proximate security to the veteran politician.

This arrangement comes within weeks of Mr. Karunanidhi surrendering the ``police protection'' provided by the State Government. He had written to the Home Secretary early this month - when he was lodged at the Chennai central prison - stating that his personal securitymen could do nothing when personnel of the CB-CID and city police barged into his house to effect the midnight arrest on June 30.

When asked about the move, Mr. Karunanidhi said, ``I know only as much as you do. I do not know about the nature or the details of the cover.''

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