New Delhi, 7/2: As he once again declined security cover, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday made an appeal in Parliament to AIMIM president and Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi to allow security personnel to accompany him, days after bullets were fired at his vehicle in Uttar Pradesh.
Making a statement in Rajya Sabha on the attack on Owaisi’s convoy in Thana Pilkhuwa in Hapur, Shah said the Centre reviewed threat perception after the incident and decided to give the Hyderabad MP ‘Z’ category security, which includes bullet-proof vehicle in Delhi and CRPF personnel securing him.
Shah said the Centre has on several occasions directed central agencies to provide security cover to Owaisi but he had declined. The “repeated endeavours” of Delhi Police and Telangana Police to provide security cover to Owaisi did not succeed on account of his “unwillingness” to accept it.