Last Updated: December 14, 2023, 13:10 IST
Once on the reception, the frisking was much more thorough with the safety individual double-checking each merchandise. (Photo: PTI)
Media has been barred from standing close to the Makar Dwar, from the place MPs enter the Parliament constructing. An intensive pat down of all guests at Shardul and Garud Dwars
“Take off your shoes, empty your pockets” — mentioned the safety personnel to an individual subsequent to me within the queue on the reception gate of the Parliament House on Thursday morning.
This was the identical gate maybe from the place two miscreants carrying customer passes entered Parliament on Wednesday, hiding smoke canisters inside their footwear, had jumped from the Visitors’ Gallery into the House. The surprising incident has led to heightened safety measures on the Parliament premises on Thursday, with airport-style frisking into place now.
My parliament go was checked at over half-a-dozen factors on the best way to Parliament on Thursday, in an enormous step up from earlier. Once on the reception, the frisking was much more thorough with the safety individual double-checking each merchandise I used to be carrying inside. At least two individuals within the queue have been requested to take away their footwear and get the identical checked after yesterday.
Inside the Parliament premises, on the Makar Dwar, from the place MPs enter the constructing, the media has now been barred from standing close to the gate. The space across the Makar Dwar has been cordoned off for MPs, and journalists have been requested to face at an enormous distance. At the entry gates of the media — Shardul and Garud Dwars — two males have been doing a radical pat down of all guests right here, resulting in an extended queue. Passes of media have been additionally double-checked by the security-men.
At the third-level verify earlier than the guests’ gallery, the safety was much more heightened as properly with media passes being checked once more. Visitors have been barred from coming to Parliament since yesterday’s incident so the hall of the guests’ gallery bore a abandoned look. Only a couple of journalists may very well be seen within the hall going in the direction of the media gallery right here.
Gurpreet Singh Aujla, the Congress MP who caught one of many intruders, informed News18 that he wished the safety measures had all the time been as tight as they have been on Thursday. “If the security had been as tight as today, yesterday’s incident would not have happened. I want that visitors’ entry should be reopened soon as people should not be stopped from coming and seeing Parliament. We need more security measures surely,” Aujla informed News18.
