CENTRE ACCORDS ‘X’ CATEGORY CRPF SECURITY TO 4 BJP LEADERS IN PUNJAB

CHANDIGARH: The central government has accorded ‘X’ category of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) security to four Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, people in the know of the development said on Saturday.

The four leaders who have been provided the security cover had recently joined the party.

Former Congress cabinet ministers Balbir Sidhu and Gurpreet Kangar had joined the BJP after the assembly polls earlier this year and former SAD leader Jagdeep Nakai and former Congress leader Amarjit Singh Tikka had joined the party before the assembly polls.

A Punjab Police official privy to the developments said the security was provided by the Union ministry of home affairs on the recommendations of the security analysis of these leaders done by the central agencies. “Punjab Police had no idea about the exercise being done to provide security to these agencies,” the official said.