PM’s security breach: Punjab govt submits report to Centre, claims it had no prior info on change in route
The Punjab government on Friday submitted a written report to the Central government on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security breach fiasco in the state.
In the report, the state government informed that an FIR has been lodged in the case and a committee has been constituted to probe the entire incident and give its report in three days.
The Channi government also claimed that it had no prior information about the change in route for PM Modi’s visit to Hussainiwala in Punjab.
The report has come a day after Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi launched a blistering attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for holding the state government responsible for the security breach.
While speaking to 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 danger to the Prime Minister then every Punjabi is nationalist enough to shed his blood and face the bullets as they have done before in the service of the nation.
In a “major security lapse”, Modi’s convoy was stranded on a flyover due to a blockade by protesters in Ferozepur on Wednesday after which he returned from poll-bound 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.
