Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Security Cover

Week after Gandhi family loses SPG cover, CRPF takes over security for Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka

The Gandhis are now without SPG protection after 28 years. They were included in the VVIP security list following an amendment in September, 1991 in the SPG Act of 1988. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now the only person to be protected by the around 4,000-strong SPG security.

Day after SPG protection withdrawn, Congress' Sonia Gandhi thanks elite force for its service, calls it 'outstanding'

The elite SPG security cover given to Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul and daughter Priyanka was withdrawn on Friday, 28 years after the elite force's continuous deployment, and it was replaced by the 'Z-plus' security of the CRPF.

Congress' hue and cry over withdrawal of SPG cover misplaced, shows Gandhi family's uneasiness at not being special

With the SPG cover withdrawn, the Gandhi family is now like any other political family in the country and that makes Congress and its loyalists uneasy

Centre revokes SPG cover for Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, accords them Z+ security

Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have been stripped of the Special Protection Group (SPG) cover, government sources said