Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has reportedly received death threats from an unknown person, who warned that he has ‘only four days left’.
A complaint was registered at the Sushant Golf City police station in Lucknow over the incident, and police have constituted a surveillance team to trace the sender of the threat.
The threat was received on the WhatsApp emergency dial number ‘112’ of the Uttar Pradesh Police on the evening of April 29, police officials said.
In September, November, and December last year as well, calls were received threatening Adityanath.
Earlier last month, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) had received an e-mail threatening to kill CM Yogi Adityanath and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
In November, a 15-year-old boy had sent a message on the same number. The police had traced the mobile number of the juvenile to Agra and arrested and sent him to a juvenile home. According to reports, the teenager was miffed over the closure of schools in the state in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister was given a category ‘Z+’ VVIP armed security cover in 2017, with 25-28 armed commandos following him wherever he goes.
Meanwhile, Yogi, who has recently recovered from COVID-19, directed officials to start community kitchens to provide food to the poor and migrant laborers amid the lockdown imposed to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Last month, the Yogi Adityanath government had asked officials to safely transport stranded migrant workers to their respective destinations after they had returned from Delhi and Maharashtra following the lockdown imposed in the states on account of the rising number of COVID-19 cases.