Food security prompts security clampdown at parliament

Exceptional precautions to keep out 12 suspended MPs from AP

GN Bureau | August 25, 2013



Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar has directed to security officers of parliament not to let in the 12 Andhra Pradesh MPs who were suspended on Friday.

This means, heavy deployment of security guards on Monday morning to prevent the suspended MPs entering the Lok Sabha.

A mini-emergency type of surveillance has been clamped inside parliament.

Four major precautions have been taken to prevent the elected MP to enter the house.

Senior Andhra MPs comment that such type of watch is mounted because the UPA wants to get a smooth sailing of Food Security Bill discussed and passed before Monday midnight. 

Security arrangements include:

* Five entry points will be heavily guarded.

* Photos of the suspended MPs are provided to the watch and ward staff.

* Attendance register is kept at the main entry for MPs to sign it.

* The control room will have a special CCTV camera to ensure the MPs do not sneak in.

* Delhi police has also been asked to help the parliament watch and ward in preventing those MPs from sneaking into the house.

To enable these MPs to sign the register, a specially designated official will keep the attendance register outside the main gate. (Signing the attendance register is the right of any MP as per a supreme court ruling.)

The Lok Sabha secretariat on Sunday held a special briefing session for the security staff about precautions, and dos and don’ts were conveyed to them

From their respective government bungalows movements of these MPs are also kept under watch. If any one of these MPs entered the Lok Sabha in disguise according to the rules, the speaker has powers to send the MP to Tihar Jail for three days.

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