Amidst political heat in Uttar Pradesh in view of the forthcoming elections, the Bhartiya Janata Party through multiple leaders have said that the Congress should apologise to the country for this pre planned conspiracy.
Punjab authorities did not follow appropriate protocols and highly ignored PM Modi’s security, BJP leaders across the country said. A sting operation on the same said that the protestors were not farmers as alleged earlier. This was a serious attempt to attack the PM and was the most major breach of a Prime Minister’s security in the history of India.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath said the Congress government, led by Charanjit Singh Channi, should “apologise” to the country.
“Prime Minister Modi’s security breach during his visit to Punjab was a pre-planned sponsored conspiracy,” There could have been a drone attack also on PM Modi, CM Yogi was quoted saying in Lucknow adding that the Congress run Punjab government simply ignored it.
PM Modi who had landed in Bathinda in Punjab on January 5 to take the road route to Hussainiwala in Ferozepur because of inclement weather on Wednesday, was stuck on a flyover for 15-20 minutes due to a protests and blockade by some farmers.
Chief ministers of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states, across the country, have unanimously raised their attacks on this security breach and today on Wednesday called it a Khalistani pre planned conspiracy.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Prime Minister Modi’s security breach incident was part of a “conspiracy”, the evidence of which was recorded in a sting operation that captured the conversation between two senior Punjab Police officials that was released by a television channel.
CM Sarma added that Punjab CID Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Sukhdev Singh’s voice was recorded in a sting operation in which he was telling a Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) about the conspiracy as early as January 2.
“When the incident took place on January 5, the CID provided all details over it to the higher officials,” Sarma said.
“In the sting operation, he (Punjab CID DSP Sukhdev Singh) is also saying that the entire protest was organised by Khalistani supporters, they were not farmers.”
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, reacting to the sting operation said “, it can be said that the breach in the Prime Minister’s security in Punjab was not spontaneous but a sinister premeditated conspiracy to harm him.”
The sting operation raises serious questions about the way the Prime Minister’s security was handled by the Congress government in Punjab, Dhami added at a press conference in Dehradun. “The Congress must answer to the country on what happened in Punjab during the Prime Minister’s visit,” he said.
Notably, the Supreme Court has set up a five-member committee headed by retired SC judge Justice Indu Malhotra to probe the security lapse matter. The other members of the committee are the Director-General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) or his nominee not below the rank of IG, DGP Union territory of Chandigarh, ADGP of Punjab (Security), and Registrar General of Punjab and Haryana High Court.
