Delhi Police has detained farmers protesting at Ghazipur near the Delhi-UP border. The farmers had called for a ‘Mahapanchayat’ at Jantar Mantar in the national capital for which many farmers had started arriving in the city.
The police has stepped up security, put up barricades and deployed personnel at the Delhi-Haryana border.
The Delhi-Ghazipur border near the capital saw a 3-km long traffic jam as commuters headed for Delhi were stuck due to the barricading. The security has also been beefed up at Delhi’s Singhu border and Tikri border, where farmers were arriving from outside Delhi.
Section 144 has been imposed in New Delhi area while there is heavy security arrangement at the Jantar Mantar. At many places, concrete slabs have been put up on roads to block the way for farmers.
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (Apolitical) has given the call for a ‘mahapanchayat’ at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Monday, which will be attended by farmers from different states. However, Delhi Police said it has denied permission for the protest.
The Mahapanchayat has been called by farmers to demand justice for the victims’ families in Lakhimpur Kheri and release of farmers from jails.
Traffic movement is slow at the Noida-Delhi Chilla border as security is heightened at the border entry point to Delhi, amid a call for protest by farmers over the issue of unemployment at Jantar Mantar pic.twitter.com/SHyq6J9aMT— ANI (@ANI) August 22, 2022
The farmers’ body is also demanding the arrest of Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni, whose son Ashish is a prime accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case.
Traffic Advisory Issued
The Delhi Police issued a traffic advisory and requested people to avoid the following roads to avoid congestion:
-Tolstoy Marg
-Sansad Marg
-Janpath (from outer circle Connaught Place to Roundabout Windsor Place)
-Outer Circle Connaught Place
-Ashoka Road
-Baba Kharak Singh Marg
-Pandit Pant Marg
Security Measures at Delhi’s Borders
The Delhi Police have beefed up security at the Singhu border in the national capital ahead of the call by farmers to protest at the Jantar Mantar. The Delhi Police has made elaborate security arrangements to avoid any untoward incident. Each person and every vehicle is being checked thoroughly at the Singhu border.
The Delhi Police said the gathering of the farmers can cause traffic problems and untoward incidents across the national capital and hence they have made security arrangements.
Police personnel have been deployed across the national capital, mostly at the borders in large number. Apart from this, the Delhi Police has also put extra barricades at every borders.
Rakesh Tikait Detained
Earlier on Sunday, Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait was detained by the Delhi Police at the Ghazipur border while he was trying to enter the national capital to take part in a protest at Jantar Mantar. Several farmer leaders and organisations gathered at Jantar Mantar for their “Rozgar Sansad” (employment parliament) organised by the Samyukt Rojgar Andolan Samiti (SRAS).
He alleged the Delhi police was working at the behest of the Centre and did not allow him to meet the unemployed youth.
A Delhi Police official said Tikait, the national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) and a prominent face of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), was stopped at the border around afternoon. “Thereafter, he was detained and taken to Madhu Vihar police station where police spoke to him and requested him to return,” Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Dependra Pathak said.
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