New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Monday received a death threat following which senior party leaders has decided to meet Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
According to reports, Puducherry Congress received a letter threatening the life of Rahul Gandhi today.
The Congress vice president is scheduled to address a public rally tomorrow in Puducherry, where assembly elections will be held next week on May 16.
The Congress leaders will take up the matter with Rajnath, asking him to step up the security for Rahul.
Congress leaders like Anand Sharma and Ahmed Patel will meet the home minister and demand adequate security for their leader. They also want the central government to investigate the threats.
A fourth-generation scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family, Rahul Gandhi gets SPG cover as he has a high threat perception and also considering that his father and grandmother were assassinated.
Rahul Gandhi, along with other members of his family are protected by the elite Special Protection Group, the highest level of security in the country. Only Prime Ministers and former Prime Minister of India and members of their immediate families are protected by the SPG, apart from the Gandhi family.Besides they are also granted no frisking privilege. They are spared the security checks that every other passenger has to go through at the airport.
However,Last Year, Modi government withdrew Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's no-frisking privileges, which had generated much controversy and debate.
