Mithun Chakraborty gets Y+ security from MHA ahead of west bengal polls

Days after he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the West Bengal Assembly election, the Union home ministry on Wednesday provided Y-plus security cover to veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty.

Sources say, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) will provide security cover to Mithun Chakraborty.

Usually, in a Y-plus security, the protectee gets an elaborate security cover comprising 11 commandos while a team of more than 55 security personnel is deployed at and around the residence of the VIP.

Mithun Chakraborty joined the party on March 7. He was introduced to the voters of West Bengal as "Bangalar Chhele" by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his Brigade Parade Ground rally earlier this week.

The actor-politician is not the first VIP to



have been given some kind of security cover in Bengal ahead of the assembly election. The Union home ministry has accorded X and Y category security cover to around 60 leaders in Bengal in the past one month.

Bengal has seen violence during election campaign and polling in the past. The Election Commisison while announcing the poll schedule for five assembly polls declared that while Tamil Nadu would vote in a single-phase polling on April 6, West Bengal would go to the polls for its 294 seats in eight phases between March 27 and April 29.

Mithun Chakraborty has had a long political association, having been close to the CPI-M when it was in power in West Bengal. He later joined the Trinamool Congress of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who sent him to the Rajya Sabha.