{"id":316533,"date":"2019-11-08T11:35:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316533"},"modified":"2019-11-08T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:35:07","slug":"spg-cover-for-gandhis-withdrawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/spg-cover-for-gandhis-withdrawn\/","title":{"rendered":"SPG cover for Gandhis\u2019 withdrawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316534 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sonia-rahul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/sonia-rahul.jpg 584w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/sonia-rahul-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>The Centre has decided to withdraw Special Protection Group (SPG) security cover from Gandhi family and now they will be accorded Z+ security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Gandhis will be guarded by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the decision was taken on the recommendation of a top security review panel that carries out a threat perception assessment and found there was no direct threat to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Recently, the government had downgraded the security cover of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from SPG to Z+.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the Congress has slammed the move by Narendra Modi-led BJP government and called it personal vendetta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress leader Ahmed Patel said in a tweet, \u201cThe BJP has descended to the ultimate personal vendetta mechanism, compromising the lives of family members of 2 Former Prime Ministers to acts of terror and violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The SPG was formed in 1985, a year after Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own bodyguards.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has decided to withdraw Special Protection Group (SPG) security cover from Gandhi family and now they will be accorded Z+ security. The Gandhis will be guarded by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel. According to the sources, the decision was taken on the recommendation of a top security review panel that carries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11992,11991],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316535,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316533\/revisions\/316535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}