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Minister of State for Home RPN Singh on Wednesday said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has been given adequate security.
"Security is given depending on the threat perception. The home ministry has already given him NSG (National Security Guard) cover and special security before any programme," Singh told media here.
The minister also hit back at the BJP with a reference to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, saying: "I want to tell the NDA (the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance) when they were in power, Rajiv Gandhi wasn't given the security of even a sub-inspector. Maybe that's why he lost his life."
"But I would like to assure the BJP that we are giving him full security," he added.
The remarks came in the backdrop of the BJP Parliamentary Board passing a resolution demanding PM level security for the Gujarat Chief Minister.
According to reports, the BJP said Modi's security cover must be increased.
The party also accused both the Bihar and the central governments of monumental failure in providing adequate security to Modi during the party's 'Hunkar' rally' in Patna on October 27 when a series of low-intensity bomb blasts claimed seven lives.
Earlier, former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi claimed that Modi was the 'target' of the Patna serial blasts.
"Not the crowd, Narendra Modi was the target of the blasts in Patna," Sushil Modi said.
