Ganeshan was the runner up for US Freedom Defender's Award

Leader of the Western Peoples Front (WPF), Mano Ganeshan, told BBC Sandeshaya that his security was reduced to two policemen despite serious threat to his life.

A back up police vehicle provided to the MP was also being recalled and Ganeshan says his life is in danger as a result.

Human rights campaign

The outspoken parliamentarian was selected as the runner-up of this year's Freedom Defender's Award by the United States for his outstanding work to improve island's human rights situation.

The government is increasingly becoming annoyed with my campaign on human rights Mano Ganeshan

"It was the police and the state intelligence agencise who informed me that my life was in danger," Ganeshan told BBC Sinhala.com.

The MP said he will make formal complaints to the Speaker in the parliament and the President on Wednesday.

"The government is increasingly becoming annoyed with my campaign on human rights," he added.

Parliamentarians killed

Ganeshan, founder and the convenor of Civil Monitoring Commission (CMC), has been campaining against the abductions and dissaperances in Sri Lanka.

The CMC has documented hundreds of dissaperarances and abductions.

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Describing the move as a 'carpet arrest' the MP who is fluent in both Sinhala and Tamil strongly protested the recent arrest of nearly 1000 Tamils by the police.

Killing of legislators is not unusual in the conflict ridden Sri Lanka.

A popular young Tamil MP and a human rights campaigner, Nadaraja Raviraj, was gunned own in Colombo in November, last year.

Experts from the Scotland Yard police was called in by the authorities but activists says the murder investigation lacks progress.