Lucknow: The central government has decided to completely remove NSG from VIP security. NSG commandos engaged in the security of 9 high-risk leaders will be removed next month. Now the security of 9 high-risk leaders will be handed over to CRPF. Now NSG will be used in anti-terrorist operations.
Sources said the protection of nine ‘Z plus’ category VIPs being guarded by the ‘black cat’ commandos of the National Security Guard (NSG)– Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, his predecessor and BSP supremo Mayawati, Union defence minister Rajnath Singh, veteran BJP leader and former deputy prime minister L K Advani, Union shipping minister Sarbananda Sonowal, BJP leader and ex Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) president Ghulam Nabi Azad, National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu– will now be guarded by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
The CRPF which has six VIP security battalions has been asked to absorb a seventh battalion for this purpose. The fresh battalion is the one that used to guard the Parliament till a few months back. After a security breach that took place last year, the Parliament security was handed over to the CISF from the CRPF, a senior officer told PTI.
As part of the taking over the new task, a team of Andhra Pradesh Police was in Delhi recently for the change of its chief minister’s security from the NSG to the CRPF, the sources said.
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