JAIPUR: BJP Rajya Sabha member Kirori Lal Meena has become an unmanageable intelligence challenge for the city police. He exposed the chinks in security at magarh Fort area after he trekked through littleknown pathways before hoisting a flag in one of the ramparts on Sunday morning.
No one in the police anticipated that the elderly leader could suddenly spring out of the thick bushes near the hill fort at the crack of dawn. But the city police were caught napping when Meena breached the cordon and posted pictures from the spot.
This was not the first incident where Meena kept the city police on the backfoot, in fact, he regularly springs up surprises in some of the heavily guarded areas of the city, sending cops into a tizzy.
In April this year, Meena shook the Jaipur police when he came to the city with the body of a priest from Tekari village of Dausa district. Meena and his supporters organized a dharna with the body near the Civil Lines railway crossing, barely a few meters away from the high-security zone.
Jaipur police had a hard time admitting that Meena could come all the way from Dausa and reached the city, crossing the jurisdictions of over a dozen police stations in his wake.
“He has a large number of supporters in cities and small villages, he swiftly marshals his supporters from different areas into small groups before organizing a big gathering. It is difficult to keep a tab on his every movement,” an official said.
However, Meena has long been an issue frequently mentioned in repeated intelligence failures of local police. Recently, he had arrived at Civil Lines area with people, seeking relief packages for children orphaned during the pandemic.
