Former AAP chief Kumar Vishwas, who just lately alleged that Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal had hobnobbed with Khalistani parts During the 2017 Punjab elections, is more likely to get central safety cowl. Sources within the authorities stated Vishwas’s safety was being reviewed and a report had been sought from the Intelligence Bureau (IB) on this regard.
Vishwas had just lately informed ANI that through the 2017 elections, he warned Kejriwal to not go along with “fringe elements”, separatists and forces related to the Khalistani motion. “But he said, nahin ho jayega (it will be done). One day, he told me… ‘ya toh main ek swantatra sube ka mukhyamantri banoonga (I’ll either be the chief minister of an independent state)…’ I then told him that’s separatism… To which he said, ‘Theek hai, toh mein swantantra desh ka pehla pradhan mantri banoonga (Ok, then I’ll be the first PM of an independent nation’.”
Following the assertion, each the BJP and Congress had accused Kejriwal of being hand-in-glove with separatist parts in Punjab. AAP has hit again saying that the Delhi CM was being falsely accused of such fees as the 2 events had been dropping the Punjab elections and that the AAP was on street to victory. Kejriwal on Friday additionally stated in a press convention that such are being made in opposition to him by political rivals for the previous a number of years and in the event that they had been true, the central businesses ought to have arrested him.
The transfer to provide Vishwas central safety cowl comes days after Center granted paramilitary safety to 25 BJP leaders from UP and Punjab for elections. While BJP candidate in opposition to former CM Akhilesh Yadav from Karhal constituency in UP’s Mainpuri, SPS Baghel, has been granted Z class safety of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Delhi MP Hansraj Hans has been given the identical safety for his travels n Punjab until elections are over. BJP MP from Bhadohi in Uttar Pradesh, Ramesh Chand Bind, has been given X-category CISF cowl until the elections.
Barring these three, all the opposite BJP leaders who’ve been given Y and Y-plus class safety of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) until the elections are from Punjab, together with CM Charanjit Singh Channi’s former aide Nimisha Mehta. Some of the outstanding names on the record are: Avtar Singh Zira, Sardar Didar Singh Bhatti, Sardar Kanwar Veer Singh Tohra, Sardar Gurpreet Singh Bhatti, Sardar Hariot Kamal, Sukhvinder Singh Bindra and Parminder Singh Dhindsa.
Sources within the ministry stated the safety cowl was given following Intelligence Bureau stories of threats to their lives throughout elections. According to sources, lots of the leaders in Punjab who’ve been given safety joined the BJP just lately. “One of them even wrote to the Center seeking central security cover, claiming a threat to his life,” stated an official.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
