BJP seeks additional security after Dalit MP receives life threat

Police have beefed up the security of Mohanlaganj MP Kaushal Kishore who had recently hosted BJP chief Amit Shah as part of the party’s Dalit outreach initiative.

Kishore, 56, the first-time MP who joined the BJP just ahead of 2014 Lok Sabha election, is not new to threats. He received a similar threat last year but he feels this one is “serious”.

He was a minister of state in Mulayam Singh Yadav government in 2003 and has been given two security guards of the UP police. After he received threat on his mobile phone on Thursday, Kishore has been provided two additional guards at his Bagaria village residence in Dubagga.

The caller twice confirmed that Kishore was on the line before saying: “Do teen din ke mehmaan ho, bach nahi paoge” (You won’t survive beyond two three days).

“One would have to think twice before attacking me in my house. I feel I need more security when I move outside. I plan to write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and union home minister Rajnath Singh to seek additional security,” he said.

The party has rallied behind the MP with state BJP chief Keshav Prasad Maurya writing to the principal secretary, home, the DGP and the SSP, Lucknow, demanding that Kishore’s security should be increased.

He also demanded the arrest of the man who threatened the MP. The caller had called twice – first to issue the threat and then to repeat it.