Lucknow, December 28: A man was caught on camera breaching the security of top Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. In the video, he could be seen entering the area in which the Gandhi scion, former Union Minister Salman Khurshid and other party veterans were seated. He immediately rushed towards Priyanka, triggering a security alarm. The personnel tasked with her safety immediately caught hold of the person. Priyanka Gandhi Hits Out at PM Modi Over NRC Row, Says 'Country Is Fed Up of Your Lies'.

Priyanka, however, asked her security team to set the person free and allow him to interact with her. The man, who appears to be a worker of the Congress party, spoke to her for a few seconds. She patiently heard him throughout, and then shook his hand before he left the podium. The event organisers were subsequently heard asking the party workers to exercise restraint and wait for their turn to speak to the senior leaders.

Watch Video of Man Breaching Priyanka Gandhi's Security

The incident comes over a month after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) withdrew the Special Protection Group (SPG) security cover accorded to the Gandhi family. Since the assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, Sonia, Priyanka and Rahul Gandhi were assigned the SPG cover.

Priyanka, who is the Congress' general secretary in-charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, had faced another incident of security breach last month when a group barged into her Delhi-based residence to seek selfies. While speaking to reporters later, she had called the revocation of SPG cover a "political decision" taken by the Modi government.

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