The Union Home Ministry has upgraded Bengal BJP strongman and MP Arjun Singh’s armed security cover to Z category.
The TMC-turned-BJP leader who from Barrackpore who had expressed threat to his life after crude bombs were hurled in front of his house the Centre has upgraded his security cover, sources said.
At least two close lieutenants of the saffron MP had been murdered in the past about two years.
The CISF has been providing 'Y+' security cover to Arjun Singh since March 2019 when he left the Trinamool Congress and switched over to the BJP to win the Barrackpore parliamentary seat defeating then sitting MP Dinesh Trivedi. In fact Trivedi also
crossed over to the BJP early this year.
The decision of the Home Ministry comes days after National Investigation Agency was given to investigate the triple blast in front of the MP’s house.