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Then Prime Minister Chandrashekhar was going somewhere by train and the compartment was surrounded by angry students.
Once again there was news of a bullet being fired at the window of PM Chandrashekhar’s train.
The Indian Prime Minister is protected by the Special Protection Group (SPG).
There are often reports of serious lapses in the security of the Prime Minister. Since the 70s, Indian Prime Ministers have had tight security. But this has happened two to three times when the lives of Indian Prime Ministers and former Prime Ministers were in serious danger. In one such incident, the Special Protection Group protecting the Prime Minister had to open fire. One protester also lost his life. This matter is related to former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar. Similarly, once when he was the Prime Minister, Morarji Desai had a narrow escape. In another incident, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was attacked. However, it is known to everyone that the former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own security guards by firing indiscriminately.
This accident happened with former Indian Prime Minister Chandrashekhar on 25 January 2000. He was going somewhere by train. Then angry students started gathering at a station. They started gheraoing his compartment. The students were not ready to leave under any circumstances. He was very angry. His target was former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar.
Meanwhile, a group of students also tried to forcefully enter the train compartment in which former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar was sitting. Then former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar had SPG protection. At that time, former Prime Ministers used to get this security. Later this law was amended. Now former Prime Ministers get this security only for one year after leaving office.
This incident happened at Saadat station of Ghazipur
The train was stopped at Saadat station. This station is in Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh. Angry protesting students started gathering at the station. When an attempt was made to remove them, the situation became more critical. Chaos spread. The crowd of students became more uncontrollable. Then SPG had to open fire. One student was killed while another was injured.
When Chandrashekhar was the Prime Minister and was going to Bihar, not only stones were pelted at his convoy but there was also a lot of sloganeering.
However, Chandrashekhar’s SPG security was withdrawn when Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s NDA government was at the centre. He also criticized this.
Chandrashekhar was still alive
Later another accident happened with former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar. When he was going from New Delhi to Ballia by Magadh Express in Sahibabad. Then there was a loud noise in his window. This accident happened in the year 2003. Later, Chandrashekhar told that after this accident, a police officer told him that a bullet was fired at the window of his compartment, which got stuck in the AC window.
Then there was stone pelting on PM’s convoy
During the 1991 Lok Sabha elections, people of a political party in Bihar pelted stones at the convoy of the then PM Chandrashekhar. Then Lalu Prasad Yadav was the Chief Minister of Bihar. There was no commotion at that time. The PM’s convoy moved ahead quickly.
Then there was a security lapse in Manmohan’s convoy
There was a security lapse in Trivandrum in 2006 even when Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister. Once during the PM’s meeting on 25 January 2000, an SPG agent had to open fire.
Rajiv Gandhi was attacked, later he lost his life
When Rajiv Gandhi was the Prime Minister, he visited Sri Lanka in July 1987. When the Sri Lankan army was welcoming him and giving him a guard of honour, a Sri Lankan soldier attacked him from behind with the butt of his gun, trying to target his back and shoulders.
Then Rajiv Gandhi saved himself brilliantly by bowing down. That soldier was immediately arrested. However, Rajiv Gandhi was later assassinated by the same LTTE people for whom he had gone to Colombo to broker a peace agreement.
In 1990, when Rajiv Gandhi was out of power, he went to Sriperumbudur near Chennai to address an election rally. A female member of a LTTE suicide squad took her life by detonating herself.
Stone was thrown at Indira Gandhi
In the 1967 elections, when Indira Gandhi was touring the country seeking votes for the Congress, stones started being thrown at her at an election meeting in Bhubaneswar. A stone hit his nose and it broke. Blood started flowing. In the same situation, she then went to other places and gave a speech in the election meeting.
However, Indira Gandhi was later seriously attacked and killed by her own security guards inside the premises of the Prime Minister’s House in 1984.
When Morarji Desai had a narrow escape
The then Prime Minister Morarji Desai was to go to Assam on an official visit. He was requested to use Air India’s Boeing 747 for this journey but in order to save money, Morarji said that he would travel only by Air Force’s Pushpak aircraft. The aircraft’s oil tank was small and it was not considered suitable for long distance travel.
Due to bad weather and shortage of oil, the aircraft had to nosedive into a field near Jorhat, resulting in the loss of five Air Force crew but the narrow escape of Morarji Desai.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: March 21, 2024, 11:15 IST