The Delhi-NCR borders experience massive traffic pile-ups as Delhi police establish check posts as Bharat Bandh is announced to protest against the new Agnipath recruitment scheme.
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5 Farmers remove police barricades set up near the Red Fort during the Kisan Gantantra Parade amid the 72nd Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi on Tuesday. PTI photo
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 26
The Ministry of Home Affairs has ordered additional forces to be deployed inside Delhi after clashes erupted in several parts of the national capital during a tractor rally on Tuesday, official sources said.
The directions come after a high-level meeting at the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Ten of the 15 companies would be from the Central Reserved Police Force, official sources said.
Meanwhile, Delhi Police Commissioner has ordered his force to deal with “trouble making” protesters who still remained in the national capital with a strong hand, sources said.
New Delhi, January 26
A tractor march meant to highlight farmers demands resulted into violence by a section of protesters. Here s how the day unfolded:
10:00 am: Farmers break barricades at Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur Borders to enter Delhi’s arterial roads; this even though the R Day Parade was on. The agreement with the police was that the police will remove the barricades once the R Day parade ends
10:30 pm: Farmers at Ghazipur Border break the first barricade at Ghazipur check point and move in towards Delhi violating the route agreement under which they were to take a U turn towards Anand Vihar and return to the highway.
Chilla, Gazipur borders closed, Delhi Traffic Police urges commuters to take alternative routes ANI | Updated: Jan 03, 2021 11:55 IST
New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): In view of the ongoing farmers agitation at the gates of the national capital, the Delhi Traffic Police on Sunday appealed to citizens to take alternative routes as Chilla and Gazipur borders remained closed due to the protests. Traffic Alert The Chilla & Ghazipur Borders are closed for traffic coming from Noida & Ghaziabad to Delhi because of farmer protests. Please take alternate route for coming to Delhi via Anand Vihar, DND, Apsara, Bhopra & Loni Borders, Delhi Traffic Police wrote on Twitter.
Updated Jan 01, 2021 | 13:24 IST
Security remained tight at the Delhi borders with hundreds of personnel deployed at Singhu, Ghazipur &Tikri border points, where the farmers have been camping for more than a month now, braving severe winter. Protesting farmers at Singhu border in Delhi | Photo Credit: PTI
New Delhi: Thousands of farmers dug in their heels at protest venues outside several Delhi gateways, undeterred by the biting cold and firm in their resolve to not return home till their demands are met, as the New Year dawned with the minimum temperature dipping to 1.1 degrees Celsius.
The government and the farm unions had reached some common ground on Wednesday to resolve the protesting farmers concerns over rising in power tariff and penalties for stubble burning, but the two sides remained deadlocked over the main contentious issues of the repeal of three farm laws and a legal guarantee for MSP.