NEW DELHI: S. N. Tewari Director of the elite Special Protection Group the specialized task force set up in 1988 by late Rajiv Gandhi for providing security cover exclusively to the Prime Minister of India is being shifted to the Union Home Ministry as Additional Director General (Civil Defence). He will have the rank of Additional Secretary Tewari was chosen to head the SPG only a year ago. The Boston incident during the PM just-concluded US visit hastened the process of Tiwaris removal.
In fact the government had been looking for a replacement for Tewari after the Switzerland fiasco when he had suggested the blockade of a highway during Prime Minister P.V.Narasimha Raos visit to Davos early this year
Article extracted from this publication >> May 27, 1994
