Priyanka refuses to avail special facilities

Priyanka Gandhi, the grand daughter of slain Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and daughter of late Rajiv Gandhi and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, has refused to avail of the facilities, including security check exemptions at airports, that the new government had offered to continue for the members ‘Gandhi’ family. Priyanka reportedly wrote a letter to the chief of India’s elite Special Protection Group (SPG), saying ‘since the government is now reportedly considering the removal of his (her husband Robert Vadra) name (from the protocol), I would like to inform you that I do not feel it will be correct for my children and me to avail of the facility.’ Being a member of Gandhi family which is entitled to SPG, Priyanka’s husband Vadra is given some of the security covers. However, the privilege is only when he is travelling with the family and he has to undergo normal checks when he travels alone. Urging the government to withdraw her family’s security check exemptions at airports, Priyanka in her letter said that it has become a source of constant embarrassment for her husband who had repeatedly asked her to get it withdrawn, according to an Indian news agency.