Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs, Azam Khan, who was deemed to most powerful leader in this Government reportedly showed his concern over personal security during his visit to Ghaziabad.
later Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav while replying to a query on the above said that the Minister will be given adequate security. However, no one confirmed whether Azam Khan had registered any protest over his security or not.
Sources said that Azam Khan who is already in news first after his name came up for inciting violence in Muzaffarnagar and later when he remained absent from Samajwadi Party’s national executive in Agra, once again hit the head-lines this time for raising concern over security cover provided to his during his visit to Ghaziabad. Though no one officially confirmed it but sources said that he registered his grievances with the CM.
Interestingly when a senior officers of the Security Wing of the Intelligence Department has been contacted in this regard on Monday evening, he said that the security in Ghaziabad was as per the guidelines laid down under Z-category which is forwarded to Azam Khan.
He claimed that the controversy arises just as they deployed some plain clothes cops to which the minister failed to identify but later he was appraised that no slackness will be adopted in giving him security cover as per the requirement.