12/01/2017

Dirty Politics? Centre accords Y-category security to Tej Pratap





Patna,(BiharTimes): The Union home ministry on Wednesday accorded Y-category security to Tej Pratap, Bihar’s health minister and eldest son of RJD chief Lalu Prasad.

As he is the third person after expelled RJD MP Pappu Yadav and Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh to get Y-category and Z-category respectively in over one and a half years the Centre’s decision is bound to have a political meaning.

Analysts are of the view that neither Papu Yadav nor Amar Singh was facing serious threat to their lives yet they were provided Y-category security.

In the same way as a minister Tej Pratap is already very well protected by at least 18 personnel of Bihar Police.

Under the ‘Y’ category cover, he will have a squad of about a dozen armed commandos of central para-military forces to protect him wherever he travels in Bihar.

It has been argued that Tej Pratap got Y-category because of the activities of Maoists in the state. But, independent political observers are of the view, that if Maoists are really such a big threat then his brother and deputy CM Tejaswi Prasad Yadav too should be accorded the same category.

“The Narendra Modi government is indulging in a very dirty politics. By singling out Tej Pratap for special security it wants to befriend him and wean him away from his father, Lalu Prasad and younger brother Tejaswi. After all Narendra Modi, while in Patna on January 5, took time out to talk to Tej Pratap and tell him how he was looking like Krishna Kanhaiya in a social media post,” a BJP watcher told BiharTimes.

He further said the BJP has already played this card with Pappu Yadav last year, but it failed as the latter could make no impact on the electoral prospect of the Grand Alliance in Bihar in 2015.

“After all Tej Pratap is neither very smart, nor has any constituency. Why is BJP investing so much in the young man like him,” asked another analyst.

There is general consensus in the media circle that the BJP is only going to lose its goodwill further.

If Tej Pratap is really worth Y-category why had the BJP leaders been so critical of Lalu’s Z+ category when he is a former chief minister and railway minister.

“Narendra Modi came to power with the promise to end all this. But he seems to have surpassed his predecessors in according special security for political reason,” said a senior scribe.

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