(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India
(Marxist)
Vol. XXXIV
No.
51
December
19,
2010
Search of Indian Ambassador:
Have Reciprocity
The
Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) issued the
following statement on December 10, 2010.
THE
Polit Bureau
of the CPI(M) deplores the frisking of the Indian ambassador to the United States, Meera Shankar, by
security
personnel at an airport in the United States. More
objectionably, the Indian ambassador
was selected for an enhanced pat-down from amongst the passengers.
It
is not enough
for the Indian government to say that such frisking is unacceptable.
Since the US
authorities
have stated that ambassadors are not exempt from security searches,
what the government
should do is to adopt a reciprocal approach. The US
ambassador in India
should
be subjected to security searches on domestic flights in India.