All 77 BJP MLAs In Bengal To Have Central Security Cover: Report

Sources said Members of the Legislative Assembly will be secured by armed commandos of the CISF and the CRPF.

All the newly elected 77 BJP MLAs in West Bengal are being provided a cover of central security forces in view of potential threats to them, official sources said on Monday. They said the Members of the Legislative Assembly will be secured by armed commandos of the CISF and the CRPF. The Union Home Ministry has approved the cover after taking into cognisance a report prepared by central security agencies and the inputs of a high-level team of officers that was sent to the state by the ministry in the wake of post-poll violence against the workers of the BJP, they said. Sixty-one MLAs will be covered under the lowest ''X'' category and the commandos will be drawn from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), as per fresh orders of the MHA, they said.