{"id":5089,"date":"2026-04-18T11:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/bihar-deputy-cms-vijay-kumar-choudhary-bijendra-prasad-yadav-to-get-z-category-security-cover-patna-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:23:13","slug":"bihar-deputy-cms-vijay-kumar-choudhary-bijendra-prasad-yadav-to-get-z-category-security-cover-patna-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/bihar-deputy-cms-vijay-kumar-choudhary-bijendra-prasad-yadav-to-get-z-category-security-cover-patna-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar deputy CMs Vijay Kumar Choudhary, Bijendra Prasad Yadav to get Z category security cover | Patna News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130348176,imgsize-717182,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72\/bihar-deputy-cms-bijendra-prasad-yadav-vijay-kumar-choudhary.jpg\" alt=\"Bihar deputy CMs Vijay Kumar Choudhary, Bijendra Prasad Yadav to get Z category security cover\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>PATNA: Bihar deputy chief ministers Vijay Kumar Choudhary and Bijendra Prasad Yadav\u2019s security has been stepped up by the government, officials said on Saturday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/> Both leaders will now receive Z-category security cover, as per a notification issued by the state home department, according to news agency PTI.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/> The decision followed a review of their existing security arrangements, an official said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/> Z-category security includes deployment of a dedicated team of trained personnel armed with advanced weapons.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/> Former Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, currently a Rajya Sabha member, was recently granted Z-plus security cover by the state government.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>\u201cZ-plus is the highest level of security provided by the government,\u201d the official said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/> Bihar saw the formation of its first BJP-led government on April 15, with Samrat Choudhary taking oath as chief minister.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/patna\/bihar-deputy-cms-vijay-kumar-choudhary-bijendra-prasad-yadav-to-get-z-category-security-cover\/articleshow\/130348068.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PATNA: Bihar deputy chief ministers Vijay Kumar Choudhary and Bijendra Prasad Yadav\u2019s security has been stepped up by the government, officials said on Saturday. Both leaders will now receive Z-category security cover, as per a notification issued by the state home department, according to news agency PTI. The decision followed a review of their existing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}