Cong's Azad on Rahul snooping row: No 'routine' security check on me ever!

March 16, 2015 11:21

Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad takes up the issue of the alleged 'snooping' on Rahul Gandhi. Azad said that he has been under Z-plus security for 19 years, but no such routine security check was conducted on him ever. "I haven't seen the proforma in the last 35 years in my years as a minister," said Azad.

Terming the incident "Snoopgate 2", Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said on Sunday that the prime minister needed to explain why the government needed details of a person protected by the Special Protection Group.

The NDA govt has said that the proforma used to profile a leader was revised in 1999 and leaders profiled include BJP veteran L K Advani in 2011; External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in 2013; Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in 2009; former prime ministers H D Deva Gowda and I K Gujaral in 2011; and Home Minister Rajnath Singh in 2007.

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