After Diamond Harbour incident, Vijayvargiya’s security convoy gets bullet-resistant car
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The CISF has been offering ‘Z’ class VIP security cowl to Mr. Vijayvargiya since February final 12 months.
BJP chief Kailash Vijayvargiya’s VIP security has been upgraded with the addition of a “bullet resistant” car in his convoy throughout his West Bengal tour, official sources stated on Monday.
The Union Home Ministry has issued an order directing the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to incorporate an armoured car within the convoy of the 64-year-old nationwide common secretary of the BJP and guarantee he solely travels in that SUV, they stated.
“The security of Mr Vijayvargiya has been upgraded with the inclusion of a bullet resistant four-wheeler in the convoy. This has been done keeping in mind the security requirements of the protectee in the wake of the recent attack on his vehicle that was part of a convoy of BJP president J P Nadda,” an official supply stated.
The CISF has been offering ‘Z’ class VIP security cowl to Mr. Vijayvargiya since February final 12 months. The safety features a cell workforce of about six-seven armed CISF commandos in addition to a pilot and an escort car.
Mr. Vijayvargiya’s car was attacked with stones throughout a go to to Diamond Harbour space within the state’s South 24 Parganas district on December 10 when he was accompanying the BJP president.
Mr. Vijayvargiya confirmed his security improve to reporters after he arrived in Kolkata on Monday afternoon to participate in a programme at Mathurapur in South 24 Parganas.
“As per the order of the Union Home ministry, I have been provided with a bulletproof vehicle,” he instructed the media on the airport.
On December 10, a number of automobiles in Mr. Nadda’s cavalcade had been broken within the assault. Sources within the BJP stated its leaders, together with Mr. Vijayvargiya and vice chairman Mukul Roy, sustained accidents within the melee.
Mr. Nadda has comparable ‘Z’ degree VIP security cowl offered by the CRPF. His security protocol additionally permits him to journey in a bullet-resistant car.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah had stated after this incident. “Bengal has descended into an era of tyranny, anarchy and darkness under the Trinamool rule… The manner in which political violence has been institutionalised and brought to the extreme in West Bengal under TMC rule is sad and worrying”.