The Northern Provincial Council passed a resolution this week, calling for an investigation into death threats issued against Chief Minister C V Wigneswaran by Sinhalese protestors.
"The resolution asked the Inspector General of Police to investigate the complaint and, if necessary, increase security for the Chief Minister,” NPC chairman, C V K Sivagnanam, told the New Indian Express.
The Chief Minister had said in an earlier speech that he had received information of assassination plots against him. "I have been receiving information continuously that there are efforts being taken to kill me and to put the blame on the LTTE,” The Hindu quoted him as saying at a book launch recently.
Sinhala protestors in Vavuniya last week carried placards threatening the chief minister with death, following the Ezhuka Tamil rally in Jaffna.