#PM Security Lapse : Manish Tewari Terms Incident Most Unfortunate, Seeks Probe By Sitting HC Judge To Establish The Facts

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Senior Congress leader and former I&B Minister Manish Tewari had this to say on the breach in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security that forced him to cancel his rally in Ferozepur, Punjab.

The Anandpur Sahib MP has sought a probe into the entire sequence of events by a sitting judge of the high court to establish the facts.

Calling the incident “most unfortunate”, Tewari said that the security breach involving the Prime Minister is a sensitive matter and should not be turned into a political football. “I have been carefully watching the unfolding controversy about @PMOIndia’s trip to Punjab yesterday. I did not want to give a kneejerk off the cuff anodyne reaction. What happened yesterday was most unfortunate, it should not have happened,” the former Union information and broadcasting minister posted on Twitter.

In another tweet, the senior Congress leader said the PM’s security is governed by an Act of Parliament – The SPG Act of 1988 as amended in 2019. “Security breach involving @PMOIndia is a sensitive matter & should not be turned into a political football. Let entire sequence of events be inquired into by a sitting judge of the High Court to establish correct facts (sic),” he tweeted.