Krishna Express - Security management

We assigned a seat for Dr. JP and entourage in the middle of the train. However he opted the first row. It turned out to be good, since he could walk in out easily. We assigned four people for JP's security. Their goal is to protect JP and stand on all four corners of him. JP has government assigned security officer and so the responsibility of these people was mostly to control mob stampede around him. It turned out that four people are not enough and it was not easy. Few among them complained on others that they are not doing job and vying for media. We took two additional measures. We added four more people. We requested Dr. JP to talk from door instead of getting down, unless train stops for more than ten minutes.

It is mostly smooth except at one place. It was huge crowd in Vijayawada and there were so many people coming and talking to Dr. JP. We also did huge parade in entire station. It stops there for thirty minutes and the time was not enough. Some of us stayed inside train as watch force. Srinivias, Pradeep etc. did great job here washing and refilling water to save some money. Since it was hot, people were consuming water like crazy.