Modi govt withdraws 'no-frisking' exemption to Robert Vadra

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi's controversial son-in-law Robert Vadra will now be frisked at airports. The Union government on Wednesday removed his name from "no-frisking list" at domestic airports.The action comes two days after Vadra, in a Facebook post, mocked the Modi goverment for not removing his name from the no-frisking list. "Plans to visit every terminal in the airports in India and add a white tape on my name from the VVIP list and my signature on top !! So look out," Vadra said in a Facebook post Monday. fter this, aviation ministry Mahesh Sharma had promised to remove his name from the list very soon. But he had reacted furiously to his Facebook post. "Why is he politicising the issue by writing on



Facebook? He should write to me or the home minister and we will have his name removed in no time," Sharma had told TOI on Monday."There is a procedure to be followed. Let Vadra write to the home ministry. The MHA recommendation will be forwarded to Bureau of Civil Aviation Security for the needful," Sharma had added.The NDA had been talking of removing Vadra from the list ever since it came to power last year. But it did a series of flip flops on the issue before finally acting on Wednesday.Incidentally, as reported by TOI, the Goa airport had put a white tape on Vadra's name at the no-frisking list earlier this year. The move, local officials had said, was taken after many people used to ask why Vadra's name was on the list.