Ex-PM's son on SPG cover: You feel you are someone

December 04, 2019 12:21

Neeraj Shekhar, BJP MP and son of former PM Chandra Shekhar, defends his statement that SPG protectees felt like they were the PM. "The Home Minister said yesterday that the Gandhi family is getting the security that is given to the President and other eminent people. The Gandhi family and the Congress should understand that their security is the most secure.

"It is my own experience, you feel you are someone when all the paraphernalia goes with you. I was nothing back then but even I started feeling that."

Shekhar who himself was a SPG protectee for 11 years being the son of the former prime minister Chandra Shekhar, said in Rajya Sabha yesterday, "Immediate family members of former prime ministers travel in a cavalcade of bullet proof cars, escorted by police bypassing all security checks and barriers and even mandatory frisking at airports.

"Those people who live under SPG cover, they think that they are the prime minister of this country and are privileged persons."

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