Go to PM or Sonia's residence for safety, BJP to defected MPs
Posted online: Thursday , July 24, 2008 at 06:50:14
Updated: Thursday , July 24, 2008 at 06:50:14
New Delhi, July 24: In the light of attack on the residence of a BJP MP allegedly by some of its activists, the saffron party on Thursday said such parliamentarians should seek shelter in the house of the Prime Minister or the Congress president.
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"BJP would suggest to such MPs and advice them that instead of getting insulted in public it would be better, from their security point of view, that they should go to their nearest camp to try and keep themselves safe," BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said.</b>
"In a democracy even the common man can show his anger towards them and we are also worried about their life and property," he added.
"It would be better if such MPs went to 7, Race Course Road (PM's residence) or 10, Janpath (residence of Cong president Sonia Gandhi) as it would be even better from their security point of view," Rudy said.
About 50 men, allegedly belonging to the BJP, attacked the North Avenue residence of Chandrabhan Singh, party MP from Damoh, for abstaining from the trust vote. Singh later blamed BJP president Rajnath Singh for trying to get him killed.
When Rudy was asked whether he was trying to defend the attack on Singh, he said, "it is the duty of the Prime Minister to protect such MPs. It was the duty of the Prime Minister to protect all MPs including those who defected from the BJP."