The Union Home Ministry granted X-category security to Rekha Patra, who survived the Sandeshkhali violence and is now a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the Lok Sabha elections in Basirhat. According to media experiences, the security element can be supplied by commandos of the Central Industrial Security Forces (CISF).
The voting for Basirhat is scheduled for June 1, marking the ultimate part of the continuing Lok Sabha elections. Rekha Patra can be competing in opposition to Trinamool Congress’s Haji Nurul Islam. Islam was nominated after the incumbent MP, Bengali actor Nusrat Jahan, was changed.
Five BJP leaders get security cowl in Bengal
Additionally, the Home Ministry has prolonged security to 5 different BJP leaders in West Bengal. Pranat Tudu, BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Jhargram, and Nirmal Saha, the celebration’s candidate from Nirmal Saha, have additionally been granted X-category security. Kartik Paul, BJP’s candidate from Raiganj, has been allotted Y-category security.
Ashok Kandari and Ashok Purkait, BJP candidates from Jainagar and Mathurapur, respectively, have been granted X-category security following Intelligence Bureau (IB) experiences highlighting potential threats to their security. This security provision comes within the wake of an assault incident involving a neighborhood BJP chief in Kolkata, allegedly carried out by people related to the Trinamool Congress (TMC). The chief suffered head accidents in the course of the altercation, which occurred on Saturday night time, April 27.
Rekha Patra on her candidature
Earlier, Sandeshkhali survivor Rekha Patra vowed to fulfil her accountability BJP named her because the candidate from Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given this responsibility to a poor woman. I will carry out the responsibility with all honesty. Atrocities are going on against women in Sandeshkhali. We will contest and I will make an effort to ensure that their fight goes ahead,” she had said.
