Punjab Gov. restricts security of numbers VIPs –
Punjab Government removed security of 424 VIPs including MLAs, Jathedars of two takhts, various dress heads and multiple police officers.
The Punjab Government (AAP) have removed all the security covers from all VIPs including Giani Harpreet Singh, the officiating Jathedar of Sikhs supreme temporal seat Akal Takht.
After knowing about these restrictions, Giani Harpreet Singh reacted and said, ‘It’s not a big thing, I have asked the secretary to talk to the govt to call back remaining security personnel.’
‘we don’t need security, especially from the Punjab govt. Khalsa Panth, our Sikh youth are sufficient to provide security, we don’t need security from the state govt, we are sending back the remaining security personals’, added Giani Harpreet Singh.
The following people security is been rolled back:
However, the director general of police stated that, ‘the withdrawal of security personnel is on a temporary basis in connection with an emergent law and order duty.’
The security of Giani Raghbir Singh, Jathedar of Takht Kesgarh Sahib in Anandpur Sahib; Sant Niranjan Dass, chief of Dera Sachkhand Ballan in Jalandhar; Satguru Udhay Singh Namdhari, Bhaini Sahib, Ludhiana; Giani Jagtar Singh, head granthi at Golden Temple in Amritsar; Baba Lakha Singh, Gurdwara Nanaksar Kaleran wale, Jagraon; and Sant Tarminder Singh, dera chief of Kahna Dhesian, Goraya in Jalandhar, has also been withdrawn, as per the order.
Among MLAs, Shiromani Akali Dal legislator from Majitha seat Ganieve Kaur Majithia, Congress MLA from Jalandhar Cantonment Pargat Singh and AAP MLA from Ludhiana North Madan Lal Bagga security have been rolled back.
Ten personnel backed out to protect Dera Radha Soami Satsang, Beas; nine of Dera Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan, Noormahal, and six to protect Shahi Imam Punjab, Mohammad Usman Ludhianvi, have also been withdrawn.
Likewise, the security of the former Congress MLAs Kuljit Singh Nagra, Balwinder Singh Laddi, Harminder Gill, Madan Lal Jalalpur, Surjit Dhiman, Hardial Kamboj and Sukhpal Bhullar, former BJP and SAD legislators Dinesh Babbu, Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, Kanwarjit Singh and Gurpartap Singh Wadala has also been withdrawn.
Former AAP MLAs Kanwar Sandhu and Jagtar Singh Jagga have also lost their security personnels.
The former MLA and BJP leader Fateh Jang Bajwa, former minister Tikshan Sood and BJP chief spokesperson Anil Sareen have also been called back.
Even the former Punjab Vidhan Sabha speakers Rana KP Singh and Nirmal Singh Kahlon have lost their security along with former deputy speaker Ajaib Singh Bhatti and former MP Shamsher Singh Dullo has also been withdrawn.
Iqbal Singh Lalpura, chairperson, National Commission for Minorities; Sanjay Srivastava, chairman of Bhakra Beas Management Board; former Rajya Sabha MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa; Raj Bahadur, vice chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences; and singer Sidhu Moosewala; and former MP Rajiv Shukla are the other prominent leaders whose security has been withdrawn.
Even police authorities loose their security personnels:
Among the police authorities, SK Asthana, LK Yadav, MF Farooqui, Varinder Kumar, Parveen Kumar Sinha, Shashi Prabha Dewedi, Arpit Shukla, Ishwar Singh, B Chandra Sekhar and V Neerja have lost their security personnels.
Likewise, IPS officer Harpreet Singh Sidhu, head of the anti-drug Special Task Force has no security personnels currently.
Among inspector general officers, AK Mittal, RK Jaiswal, Jaskaran Singh, Jatinder Singh Aulakh, Gautam Cheema, Gurinder Dhillon and Ananya Gautam security have rolled back.
Several director general of police-rank officers Chander Shekhar, NPS Aulakh, PC Dogra, RP Singh, SK Verma, RK Gupta, Rajinder Singh Mohammad Mustafa, MK Tiwari, DR Bhatti, Sanjiv Gupta and Rajan Gupta security is been released.
