BANGKOK, Nov 20 (TNA) – New Politics Party (NPP) leader Sondhi Limthongkul claimed that he is targeted for being killed by a group who fear that his political party will expose corruption, saying that the grenade explosion behind stage at the ‘Yellow Shirt’ People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) demonstration at Sanam Luang on November 15 proved his point.

Mr Sondhi, 62, a media owner and a top PAD leader, said the M-79 attack during the PAD rally site at Sanam Luang on November 15 was an attempt to kill him as it was aimed at the stage while he addressed PAD from the stage.

He said that his sources confirmed there was an attempt to set up an execution team, a collaboration of many groups who share the goal of killing him.

Mr Sondhi said police, military, political parties with out-of-date thinking or capitalists who backed political parties to enter politics to collect corruption feared that his NPP party would expose the truth, unveiling their corruption.

The PAD demonstration November 15 aimed to show their joint determination to protect the nation’s dignity, while expressing their dissatisfaction with recent moves of fugitive, ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.

(MCOT)