Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday defended the withdrawal of SPG cover from the Gandhi family, saying that the person who will suffer the most from changes to the law will be Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

'If somebody is to be affected by this act, it will be Shri Narendra Modi because he will lose his security after five years (if he is not the PM anymore)...Further, we have not kept any arrangement (in the law) that he will be given the SPG cover after a threat assessment,' Shah told Rajya Sabha.

'I have previously said that before bringing the bill, the security (of the Gandhi family) has been changed as per a threat assessment,' he said.

The Rajya Sabha also passed the bill to amend the act governing the Special Protection Group.

Shah asked why the Congress did not protest when the Special Protection Group cover of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was withdrawn. To this, Leader of Opposition Ghuhlam Nabi Azar said that the Congress had lodged a formal complaint.

'There is a difference between a protest and a formal complaint Ghulam Nabi sahab. I have seen the anger (over SPG withdrawal of the Gandhis) ,' Shah said.

Refuting the claims of political vendetta, he said the changes made to the SPG law are not meant to target the Gandhi family.

'We are not opposing the parivaar (family), but parivaar-vaad (nepotism). There is a huge difference but you will not understand,' he said on the comments that the Centre was targeting a particular family.

The Union home minister further said that the people assigned to the Gandhi family now under Z+ security are personnel who have been a part of the SPG cover before.

The Union home minister was speaking after Opposition leaders, including those from the Congress and CPI, referred to the withdrawal of SPG cover of the Gandhis — Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and party leader Rahul Gandhi — as a decision based on 'political vendetta.'

Shah, reacting to this, told the Rajya Sabha that due to 'political vendetta,' more than 120 BJP workers have been killed under the CPI(M)-led Kerala government.

'CPI(M) has no right to talk about political vendetta,' Shah asserted amid an uproar in the House.

Shah further spoke of the recent incident at Priyanka Gandhi's house, where a few people had barged into her house to take selfies with the Congress' general secretary.

Shah said that people from her family enter the house without any security check, which he said led to the security breach.

'Security personnel (at Priyanka's home) were told that Rahul Gandhi would be coming to visit her,' he said adding that a black Tata Safari at the designated time came over to Priyanka's home.

However, the car was carrying a few party workers, but since it was the same time and the same car, it was let in without a security check, Shah said.

Since the security personnel were told that Rahul Gandhi was coming, the car was let in, he said.

Although Shah dismissed the whole thing as a 'coincidence,' he said that action has been taken against the personnel concerned.

'We have suspended the three personnel concerned and the inquiry is underway,' he said.