Punjab Chief Minister Must Be Sacked Over PM Security Row: Himanta Sarma
NDTV
The Assam Chief Minister said SoniaGandhi and Rahul Gandhi are also dependent on non-Congress ruled states' security apparatus whenever they visit such places, while referring to the PM security lapse in Punjab.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said the Congress should sack Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi over the security lapse during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Ferozepur.
Mr Sarma also said Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul are "protectees" and dependent on non-Congress ruled states' security apparatus whenever they visit such places.
"No bad precedent should be created. If that has happened, then the party seniors must censure that person. Today, I am very very surprised that knowing the same vulnerability of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, they should have been the first to criticise or censure the Punjab chief minister," Mr Sarma told reporters in Guwahati.
In a "massive security breach" on Wednesday, the prime minister's convoy was stranded on a flyover due to a blockade by protesters in Ferozepur, after which he returned from poll-bound Punjab without attending the planned events, including a rally.
