KP says LTTE tried to assassinate Jayalalithaa

CHENNAI:  While admitting that the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was “well planned and done with the concurrence of Prabhakaran (slain LTTE chief) and Pottu Amman (LTTE’s intelligence chief)”, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, popularly known as KP, now the head of the decimated LTTE, said in an interview to a news channel that the outfit attempted to assassinate CM J Jayalalithaa.In an interview to CNN IBN-First Post, KP said, “If the LTTE had got a chance, they would have tried (to assassinate her) because she was always against LTTE. She always took action against the LTTE. Everyone understands the nature of the LTTE. They (LTTE) tried maximum, but sometimes they couldn’t succeed.”