PM Security Lapse Video: 'BJP Zindabad' Slogans, Group Dangerously Close
Two days after a serious safety breach left Prime Minister Narendra Modi caught on a Punjab freeway for 20 minutes, a video exhibits a bunch of BJP employees standing barely just a few metres from the PM’s automobile.
The video exhibits the group, carrying a BJP flag, shouting slogans of “BJP Zindabad” whereas standing dangerously near the Prime Minister’s automobile – a black Toyota Fortuner -on the opposite facet of the freeway.
The automobile then strikes away, with the elite Special Protection Group (SPG) personnel forming a protect.
PM Modi was driving to a rally in Ferozepur when his convoy was caught in the midst of a flyover with protesting farmers blocking the route.
The BJP employees, heading to the identical rally, have been additionally stranded as visitors stopped. When they realised that the PM’s convoy was additionally on the flyover, they tried to get nearer to his automobile.
This is one other instance of an enormous lapse within the PM’s safety that day.
Just earlier than the Punjab election, the incident has escalated political sparring between the ruling BJP on the Centre and Punjab’s ruling Congress.
The Centre and the Punjab governments have introduced separate inquiries.
The Centre has accused the state authorities and police of violating safety protocol regardless of loads of discover about his journey particulars.
The Punjab authorities has alleged that there was a last-minute plan change during which it had no function. PM Modi was to fly to the rally web site by a helicopter however on account of unhealthy climate, determined to journey the 111-km distance by street.
Another video of the same location and same time where BJP workers are shouting slogans of BJP Zindabad near the PM's car and whole convoy can be seen and heard. #PMSecurityLapse #Punjab pic.twitter.com/IpCLz6zAPS
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The central authorities has mentioned there have been a number of communications to the state authorities and that PM Modi’s street route was cleared by the Punjab police chief.
The Supreme Court, listening to a petition calling for an investigation into the safety lapse, directed that PM Modi’s journey data be preserved and that each the inquiries be paused till Monday.