Security Breach At PM’s Karnataka Roadshow, Boy Runs To Him With Garland

Bengaluru: 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security — the highest in the country — was breached today during his roadshow in Karnataka’s Hubbali by a boy who jumped onto the road suddenly and managed to get within an arm’s length of him. He was intercepted at the last minute and whisked away by the Special Protection Group or SPG of the Prime Minister.

The boy was carrying a garland and apparently trying to felicitate the Prime Minister, who was riding on the running board of an SUV and waving to cheering crowds. While the SPG men immediately blocked him, the Prime Minister was seen accepting the garland and handing it to a security official.

It is not yet known how the boy, who is 11 years old, managed to get so close to the Prime Minister in an area that is expected to be thoroughly sanitized. While hundreds of slogan-shouting supporters lined the road from the airport, they were well behind the barricades.

PM Modi’s security was breached last year during his visit to Punjab. While on his way to Ferozepur for an election rally on January 5, the Prime Minister’s cavalcade was stopped for 20 minutes on a flyover in full view of television cameras due to a blockade by protesting farmers.