AGARTALA, Nov 9 (TIWN): Sonia Gandhi and her two children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi would now have to live their lives without the security cover of the Special Protection Group. The elite security which was created exclusively to protect the Prime Minister of India has been around for about three-and-half decades since its formation in 1985 — following Indira Gandhi’s assassination — during Rajiv Gandhi’s prime ministerial tenure, said the agitators of the Congress while protesting in Agartala today. Home Minister Amit Shah's effigy was burnt in front of Congress Bhawan.

They said, such inhuman action from an Indian Govt was never seen in Tripura.

The SPG Act was subsequently amended in 1991 to include former prime ministers and their immediate family members for 10 years from the time he ceases to hold office. The SPG Act was again amended in 1999 by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government to state that former prime ministers and their immediate family members would be provided SPG security cover for one year from the time the prime minister ceases to hold office and a review would accordingly be done each year.