No VIP security cover for Mukul Roy, son
FILE PHOTO: Mukul Roy (C) speaks during a press conference in Amritsar on January 10, 2017. (NARINDER NANU/AFP via Getty Images)
By:
Pramod Kumar
THE Indian government has removed the Z-category VIP security cover of West Bengal politician and MLA Mukul Roy.
Last week, Roy, 67, re-joined West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) after a brief stint with the ruling BJP.
His son Subhrangshu also joined Banerjee’s party in Kolkata.
The home ministry has directed the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to recall its detachment deployed with the veteran politician.
But, the ministry later clarified that he had surrendered the cover, local media reported.
Roy won the assembly election as a BJP candidate from Krishnanagar Uttar constituency.
He had quit the TMC after being removed from the post of the party’s national general secretary. He had joined the BJP in November 2017 and was made the party’s national vice president.
Soon after, he was accorded a low category Y+ central security cover of the central paramilitary CRPF. Later, it was upgraded to the second top-level of Z just before the assembly polls in the state in March-April 2021.
He had a contingent of about 22-24 armed CRPF commandos who used to move with him every time he travelled in West Bengal.
According to sources, the small category security cover being provided to Subhrangshu by another central paramilitary force CISF has also been withdrawn.
The father-son are now being provided security by the state police, reported the PTI.
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