New Delhi: In his first remarks on Wednesday’s Parliament security breach, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for a detailed investigation into the incident.
“There is no need to debate this, there should be a detailed investigation,” he told Dainik Jagran newspaper in an interview published Saturday.
Modi said the security breach was painful and a matter of concern but countered demands from opposition parties for a debate in the House on this.
“The seriousness of this incident should not be downplayed. The (Lok Sabha) Speaker is taking all the necessary steps. Probe agencies are investigating the matter. It is important to find out which elements are behind this and what their objectives are,” he told the newspaper.
On 13 December, two men had jumped from the visitors’ gallery in the new Parliament building onto the members’ benches in the Lok Sabha and set off a smoke canister. Meanwhile, two other persons staged a protest outside Parliament.
In all, the Delhi Police have arrested six persons in the case, invoking the stringent anti-terror law, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, against four of them.
The incident occurred on the 22nd anniversary of the 2001 Parliament attack, in which more than a dozen people were killed, including the five assailants.
The Opposition has reacted strongly to the security breach. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi Saturday said that the reason behind the incident was unemployment and inflation.
The BJP hit back, saying that Gandhi “always talks trash” and claimed that unemployment was at its lowest in the last six years.
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