NSG withdraw from Lalu Prasad and Raman Singh

Janjivan Bureau
NEW DELHI: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh lose the NSG cover,  Home Ministry has withdrawn it. They will now be guarded by the CRPF but will still continue to get a Z-plus security cover.This comes after demands from the NSG to reduce their VIP security duties so that they can concentrate on their specialist anti-terrorism and anti-hijacking roles.
Lalu Prasad Yadav, the former Bihar Chief Minister, will get the CRPF cover only in Bihar and Delhi while Raman Singh will get the same only in Chhattisgarh.
NSG still has nearly a dozen protectees like Rajnath Singh, Mayawati, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav, LK Advani, M. Karunanidhi, J. Jayalalithaa and Murli Manohar Joshi.
CRPF is now guarding as many as 50 VIPs including Amit Shah, Mukesh Ambani and central ministers like Nitin Gadhkari, Jitendra Singh, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Radha Mohan Singh, Anant Kumar and Babul Supriyo.