New Delhi: ior home minister Kiren Rijiju today wondered why Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was trying to “politicise security issues”, days after she sought to pre-empt the BJP-led regime by requesting that the exemptions from checks her family enjoys at airports be withdrawn.
Rijiju’s contention came on a day CISF officials claimed the exemption Priyanka’s husband Robert Vadra enjoys from frisking related only to “privilege” and had nothing to do with security.
Rijiju didn’t name Priyanka but left no doubt whom he was referring to. “One should not politicise security issues. I have failed to understand why someone is trying to score a political brownie point. Security does not depend on the whims and fancies of any individual,” he said.
In a letter to the Special Protection Group director on Friday, Priyanka had asked for the withdrawal of the security exemptions for her whole family, linking it to any possible order cancelling her husband’s privilege.
The request had come a day after civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju had seemed to suggest that the privilege Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law enjoys could be reviewed, although the government has not yet announced any explicit decision.
02/06/14 Imran Ahmed Siddiqui/Telegraph India
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Rijiju’s contention came on a day CISF officials claimed the exemption Priyanka’s husband Robert Vadra enjoys from frisking related only to “privilege” and had nothing to do with security.
Rijiju didn’t name Priyanka but left no doubt whom he was referring to. “One should not politicise security issues. I have failed to understand why someone is trying to score a political brownie point. Security does not depend on the whims and fancies of any individual,” he said.
In a letter to the Special Protection Group director on Friday, Priyanka had asked for the withdrawal of the security exemptions for her whole family, linking it to any possible order cancelling her husband’s privilege.
The request had come a day after civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju had seemed to suggest that the privilege Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law enjoys could be reviewed, although the government has not yet announced any explicit decision.
02/06/14 Imran Ahmed Siddiqui/Telegraph India
