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2 Farmers’ leaders Rakesh Tikait (L) and Jagtar Singh Bajwa at the Ghazipur protest site on Thursday. Tribune photo
Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, January 29
The situation at the Ghazipur border eased out after midnight as the security forces were withdrawn from there. While the reason behind the withdrawal of security forces was not announced, security officials said they had been asked to go back as they were on duty since previous morning. All senior police officials left the spot around 1.30 a.m.
Electricity supply at the protest site, which had been cut, was also restored after midnight.
The situation was tense at the Ghazipur border after the tractor rally organised by the farmers unions on Republic Day turned violent in the national capital.
GHAZIABAD: Hundreds of Bharatiya Kisan Union members stayed put on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway early on Friday, notwithstanding the Ghaziabad administration s ultimatum to vacate the UP Gate protest site.
A confrontation was building up at the UP Gate in Ghazipur even as frequent power cuts were witnessed in the evening at the protest site, where BKU members, led by Rakesh Tikait, are staying put since November 28.
In a post-midnight review of situation, Ghaziabad District Magistrate Ajay Shankar Pandey and Senior Superintendent of Police Kalanidhi Naithani visited the protest site even as hundreds of security personnel in anti-riot gears were deployed since Thursday.
Hundreds of Bharatiya Kisan Union members stayed put on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway early on Friday, notwithstanding the Ghaziabad administration’s ultimatum to vacate the UP Gate protest site.
GHAZIABAD: Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) supporters stayed put on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway on Friday as the crowd swelled there, notwithstanding the Ghaziabad administration s ultimatum to vacate the UP Gate protest site where security force in large numbers was re-deployed.
On a call of the BKU, more farmers from western Uttar Pradesh districts such as Meerut, Baghpat, Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar, Moradabad and Bulandshahr reached the UP Gate by early morning to join the stir, even as the security forces at the protest site thinned out overnight.
A confrontation was building up at the UP Gate in Ghazipur even as frequent power cuts were witnessed on Thursday evening at the protest site, where BKU members, led by Rakesh Tikait, are staying put since November 28 last year.