Left lashes out at govt for giving Z-plus cover to Ambani

Left parties today lashed out at the government A for providing armed commando cover to top corporate leader Mukesh A Ambani, saying the common people have been left in the lurch as gruesome A incidents of rape keep happening.

"It is unprecedented that at a time when such ghastly and gruesome A incidents of rape are taking place and people are demanding more A security, Z-plus category of security is given to a top corporate A leader like Ambani and the commoners left in the lurch," senior CPI(M) A leader Basudeb Acharia told reporters here.

In the same vein, veteran CPI leader A B Bardhan said at a time A when the "police force is unable to provide security to its citizens, A ensure safety for women, and even 4 or 5-year- old girl children A are raped under their very nose, the government has ordered Z-plus A security for the country's richest corporate tycoon Mukesh Ambani A and even protection for his sprawling residential building 'Antilia'.

"Our party demands that the government order be rescinded and the A CRPF be sent back for their primary task," Bardhan said, adding, A "This is the first time a private person, because he happens to be A an Ambani, is being provided with such security for his person and A his residence by a government which is failing every day to protect A the common man, especially women and children."

He said, "It is matter of shame for this government and shows for A whom it works. Mukesh Ambani has all the resources at his command A to provide security for himself and his establishments."

To a question whether CPI(M) would support capital punishment in A gruesome rape cases, Acharia said, "We will consider it, discuss A it further, especially individual cases....The situation has changed A and, therefore, this issue has to be thought over."