{"id":316887,"date":"2019-11-19T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T08:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316887"},"modified":"2019-11-19T08:35:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T08:35:05","slug":"congress-walkout-of-lok-sabha-over-withdrawal-of-gandhis-spg-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-walkout-of-lok-sabha-over-withdrawal-of-gandhis-spg-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress walkout of Lok Sabha over withdrawal of Gandhis&#8217; SPG Cover"},"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 Congress along with other opposition parties on Tuesday staged protest and demanded a response from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah over withdrawal of Special Protection Group (SPG) cover from the Gandhi family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Special Protection Group is an elite force that protects prime ministers and their immediate families.<\/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 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury raised the issue in Lok Sabha and said the family faces threat to life and their SPG security should not have been withdrawn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress members were heard shouting slogans such as \u2018stop politics\u2019, \u2018end dictatorship\u2019 and \u2018we want justice\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Centre on November 8 withdrew SPG security cover from Gandhi family and accorded Z+ security by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). Prime Minister Modi is now the only person currently protected by SPG.<\/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 carried out a threat perception assessment and found there was no direct threat to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; 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 Congress along with other opposition parties on Tuesday staged protest and demanded a response from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah over withdrawal of Special Protection Group (SPG) cover from the Gandhi family. The Special Protection Group is an elite force that protects prime ministers and their immediate families. Congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36,2009,2014],"tags":[406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316887"}],"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=316887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316888,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316887\/revisions\/316888"}],"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=316887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}