TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the security of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been beefed up following reports of Maoists planning an attack on him. “We do not know who is planning what, and at what stage the plans are. We need to take all precautions. I have already set up a committee to review the prime minister’s security and it is going to be a continuous process. After we received certain inputs, we tightened his security further,” he said.
In an interview, Rajnath Singh said PM Modi had not said anything about any threat to him. “… but, as home minister, I have taken the initiative to beef up his security. He is the prime minister of the country and it is our responsibility to take care of his security.” A letter allegedly found in the house of one of the five people arrested for “links” with the banned CPI (Maoist) talked about the ultras mulling “another Rajiv Gandhi incident”.
Responding to a question about the internal security situation in India, the minister said as far as the northeast insurgency was concerned, the security problem was normalised and there was a 95 per cent improvement. As far as left wing extremism (LWE) was concerned, there was a 55-60 per cent improvement, he said, adding that 75 per cent of the problem was concentrated in only ten districts.
