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When The SPG Actually Suffered Because Of A ‘Parivar’
- Much to the discomfort of the SPG officers, Rajiv Gandhi wanted them to be trained by ‘Italian experts’.
The late Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi (Keystone/Getty Images)
However if Rahul Gandhi really wants some credible factoid for the SPG suffering at the hands of some parivar, then he does have one more authentic incident. Only that the parivar is his own.
Here the source is impeccable.None other than late B Raman - an Additional Secretary of the Cabinet Secretariat of the Government of India and one-time head of the counter-terrorism division of the Research and Analysis Wing, (RAW).
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