Punjab Government Submits Report To MHA On PM Security Lapse, Claims It Had No Prior Info On Change In Route
Mumbai: Punjab government submitted a report to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on the security lapse during PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Ferozepur on Wednesday.
Punjab Chief Secretary Anirudh Tewari submitted the report detailing the sequence of events leading up to the security breach. Also Read: Punjab Forms High-Level Panel To Probe PM Security Lapse, To Submit Report In 3 Days
In the report, the state government said that an FIR has been registered in this matter and a committee has been constituted to investigate the entire incident and submit its report in three days. Also Read: President Kovind Meets PM Modi For First-Hand Account Of His Security Breach In Punjab
The Channi government also claimed that it had no prior information about the change in the route of PM Modi’s visit to Hussainiwala in Punjab.
The report comes a day after Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for blaming the state government for the security breach.
While talking to the media, he said, “Here at Dana Mandi, the fact of the matter was that barely 700 people turned up at the rally site which forced the PM to retrace his steps and later the blame was pinned on the Punjab Government citing security threat to the Prime Minister.”
“The truth is that five days before the scheduled rally of the Prime Minister, the Special Protection Group (SPG) took over the landing spot, rally site, and each security detail but later on the Prime Minister’s cavalcade suddenly took land route”, said Channi adding the route was cleared by the Special Protection Group (SPG).
He also reiterated that if there is any threat to the Prime Minister, then every Punjabi is so nationalist that he can shed his blood and bullets in his mouth as he has done before in the service of the country.
In a “major security lapse”, Modi’s convoy was stuck at a flyover in Ferozepur on Wednesday due to a blockade by protesters, following which he returned from Punjab without attending any event, including a scheduled rally.
The prime minister was scheduled to lay the foundation stone of development projects worth over Rs 42,750 crore, including the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra expressway and a PGIMER satellite centre on Wednesday, besides addressing a rally.
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