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6 Iron spikes placed by Delhi Police at Ghazipur border to keep farmers from entering the national capital during their ongoing protest against the new farm laws, in New Delhi on Tuesday. PTI Photo
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, February 2
Multi-layered security has been stepped up with the deployment of extra personnel and strengthening of barricades near the farmers’ protest sites at Delhi’s borders, and thereby turning them into fortresses.
Besides additional deployment of forces, the Delhi Police have cemented nails near barricades at Ghazipur (Delhi-Ghaziabad) and Tikri (Delhi-Rohtak) borders. Police have also heavily barricaded the Ghazipur border. Barbed wire and cement barricades have been planted on the roads to restrict the movement of farmers.
Updated Feb 02, 2021 | 13:42 IST Security has also been tightened at the Delhi-Ghazipur border, where protesting farmers are also camping for over two months. Police personnel placed iron nails near the barricades in an attempt to stop farmers from crossing Tikri border during their agitation against the new farm laws | Photo Credit: PTI
New Delhi: Security has been stepped up with the deployment of extra personnel and strengthening of barricades near farmers protest sites at Delhi s borders, leading to traffic congestions on many key roads in the national capital.
Taking to Twitter, the Delhi Traffic Police alerted commuters about the closure of borders and suggested alternative roads for travel. Workers under the watch of police personnel on Monday were seen hooking iron rods between two rows of cement barriers on a flank of the main highway at the Singhu border to further restrict the movement of protesters agitating against the Centre s
Barricades set up at the Delhi-UP Ghazipur border to stop farmers from marching towards the national capital, during their ongoing agitation against Centre s farm reform laws. (PTI Photo)
NEW DELHI: With multi-layered barricading, iron nails on road, barbed wires, iron rods between cemented barriers and deployment of DTC buses and extra personnel on ground, the tremendous security cover at and near the farmers protest locations have now become sites of unusual attraction.
The strengthened security measures at the agitation sites across the borders come after the violence during the Republic day tractor parade by protesting farmers in which 394 security personnel were injured.
Calls at panchayats to boycott those opposing the protests gather steam
As the tide of farmers at the Ghazipur border swells, the impact of the protest against the three farm laws across western Uttar Pradesh is becoming evident, with banners coming up in villages of Bijnor, Shamli, and Ghaziabad voicing villagers’ anger against the BJP leaders and its supporters.
In Banthla village of Loni, a banner says the village boycotts Loni MLA Nand Kishore Gurjar. The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) has alleged that Mr. Gurjar was present at the Ghazipur protest site on the evening of January 28 with his supporters and would have assaulted farmers had union leader Rakesh Tikait not stood firm. In Bijnor’s Rashidpur Garhi, the banner takes a more aggressive tone.