governor bhagat singh koshyari has quietly shifted blame on highranking police officials accompanying him for not removing his footwear during the wreathlaying ceremony at the police martyrs memorial saying he was expressly told it was not necessary to remove sandals or shoes at such place the row erupted after congress general secretary sachin sawants video tweet on the faux pas went viral and spurred stringent criticism on social electronic and print media while koshyaris office justified his decision to wear footwear it is yet to declare the names of police officials who advised him to do so for the entire day koshyari was at the receiving end and more so since chief minister eknath shinde and deputy chief minister devendra fadnavis who followed him next removed their shoes before laying the wreath at the memorial in political circles sawant has emerged as the new twitter leader who uses technology to take the state by storm in fact even a month ago it was sawant who first tweeted information on shifting of the rs 154 lakh semiconductor project vedantafoxconn to gujarat vedantafoxconn owners had quietly released the information and sawant quickly tweeted details about the cost of the project and its new location in gujarat sawant says the blunders of leading politicians has given him the opportunity to make effective use of twittersecurity based on threat or allegiance a month ago deputy cm devendra fadnavis drastically cut security cover provided to leading politicians particularly those from the opposition shiv sena congress and ncp at the same time he provided special security cover to new politicians belonging to his government bjp and the shinde faction incidentally during the tenure of uddhav thackeray and now fadnavis the security advisor was the same security cover is provided based on threat perception but it appears that threat perception is linked to political affiliation of the person following which there is enhancement of security cover a senior ips officer felt that it was time fadnavis personally evaluated the threat perception and decide whether so many politicians really needed such highlevel security as per official records an estimated 2300 police personnel have been provided to leading politicians including those holding constitutional posts seven hundred police personnel guard 12 persons who have been granted z category security the highest security followed by 297 police personnel deployed for protection of nine persons with z category security leader of opposition ajit pawar too has raised concern over deployment of high security cover to politicians and questioned if security cover had emerged as a status symbol