Overview
- India’s Home Ministry approved X-category security for Leander Paes with Central Industrial Security Force personnel assigned for protection.
- Officials said the upgrade followed his formal entry into the BJP in Delhi about a week earlier.
- X-category security is a government protection tier that places an armed team around a person during travel and public events.
- Paes, 52, called joining the BJP a responsibility and an opportunity to serve, and reporters expect him to feature in West Bengal campaigning.
- He was earlier linked to the Trinamool Congress, and the quick security grant has drawn questions about timing from political observers and the press.