Any publicity is good publicity for Sumanthiran

A Jaffna based Tamil daily owned by a former member of the TNA is highly critical of party spokesman M.A. Sumanthiran. Analysts say this criticism is based on intra-party conflicts for preference votes in the upcoming polls.

Last week, it ran a lead story quoting a former LTTE official urging Tamil people not to vote for Mr Sumanthiran if Tamil nationalistic politics were to survive.

The next day, Mr Sumanthiran bought some 100 copies of this newspaper and gave them to the people of an election meeting in Jaffna before he started his speech.

As someone said, 'any publicity is good publicity for a politician', particularly during elections.