Updated Jan 10, 2021 | 17:42 IST
The Maharashtra government has downgraded security of Devendra Fadnavis, Chandrakant Patil, Raj Thackeray and removed security of few others like Ram Kadam and Sudhir Mungantiwar post a review.
Sharad Pawar (File photo) | Photo Credit: IANS
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Mumbai: After the BJP criticised the move of Maha Vikas Aghadi government to reduce the security of some of its leaders, the Home Minister Anil Deshmukh defended the move saying the downgrading was due to a routine threat perception review. Firing a salvo at the critics Deshmukh informed that Sharad Pawar had called him offering to reduce his own security, "Pawar is a national leader, has been a Union minister but he had barely any security in the past four years. Even Ajit Pawar had no escort. Sharad Pawar spoke to me on the phone offering to return some of his security." The Home Minister thus delivered a taunt from his party chief to BJP leaders objecting to the slashing of security.