Bhubaneswar, Apr 14: The Commissionerate Police is making all efforts to make the visit of PM and other national BJP leaders a smooth one here. It published a press release today which mentioned that it is advisable for the public to avoid taking the route of AG square from 1.30 pm to 2 pm for the smooth travel of the VIPs who are to arrive today for the National Executive Meet. The press release further stated that there will be a halt in the public transportation for the entire day on the road connecting airport to AG Crossing, then from AG square to Raj Bhawan and then from Raj Bhawan to Janata Maidan. It further stated that the passengers both coming and going to the airport are advised to take the old airport route instead of the new one as there will be congestion between Soor company Chhak and Golei Chhak near the airport.
On the other side of the city, security personnel has been beefed up to provide entire security cover to the PM here. He is expected to arrive at the capital city at 3.30 pm tomorrow with a carcade of 200 vehicles. A carcade rehearsal was even conducted on Thursday by the Commissionerate Police. 25 bullet proof cars were a part of the carcade of 200 vehicles which headed from Biju Patnaik International airport to the Janata Maidan. After spending some time at the Raj Bhawan, he will head to the Janata Maidan here for attending the party’s National Executive meet. He will be spending the night at Raj Bha
wan and the next morning he is scheduled to offer prayers at the Lingaraj temple. After attending the meet later in the day, he will fly back to New Delhi on the same day.
Additionally, 100 platoons of police along with two companies of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have already been deployed. Four IG rank officers have been employed to be in-charge of the five sectors in which the capital city has been divided for security reasons. Lastly, 106 VVIPs with five different protection covers are being finalised. IG of SPG Yeswant Kumar Jethwa has been keeping a track on the PM’s security arrangement and has been camping here. Special Protection Group (SPG) officers are also to provide support to the four IG rank officers to provide enhanced security cover to the PM. Five units of SOG and 15 SPs are also to be stationed here for security purposes. Security for 106 VVIPs with five different protection covers is being finalised. Of them, 29 are Z-plus protectees.
Narendra Modi is the only to be under the Special Protection Group (SPG) cover in the Z-plus category and former Deputy Prime Minister and BJP veteran LK Advani and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh are to be under Z-plus National Security Guard protection. Two others are CRPF protectees in Z-plus while 24 VVIPs, including the 13 CMs of different States are in plain Z-plus cover. In Z category security cover, there are 26 political leaders of whom two are CRPF protectees whereas in Y-plus category there are four while Y and X categories have 38 and eight VVIPs respectively. The security cover detail for around 106 protectees are available but there are 288 other delegates whose details are awaited. Also, the state police are also finalizing on the number of vehicles required for carrying these VVIPs here.
