New Delhi: Following protests by hundreds of farmers blocking the Noida-Delhi border on Tuesday, the National Capital Traffic Police issued a notice requesting travelers traveling to Noida to make a U-turn from the Ghazipur overpass. -Akshardham and take the Sarai Kale Khan route. Farmers gathered at the border have stopped the movement of trafficking on a key route connecting Uttar Pradesh with the national capital, authorities said. Also read: Farmers Seek Special Session of Parliament to Repeal Farm Laws, Next Round of Talks with Center Today | Key points
Announcing that the Singhu border is still closed from both sides and Lampur, Auchandi and other small borders are also closed, the Delhi Traffic Police have asked travelers to take alternative routes. Traffic has been diverted from Mukarba Chowk and GTK Road, they said. Also read: Swara Bhasker confronts BJP MP Rakesh Sinha on Twitter, reminds him of farm protest
Police further added that since traffic is very dense at the moment due to ongoing farmer protest, travelers should also avoid the outer ring road from Signature Bridge to Rohini and vice versa, GTK road and NH 44. Also Read – Farmers Seek Special Session of Parliament to Repeal Farm Laws and Call for ‘Effigy Burning’ Across India
The Delhi Traffic Police’s notice came amid much-anticipated talks between the Center and farmers’ union leaders on the sixth day of the protest. Union Minister of Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar and Minister of Consumer Affairs Piyush Goyal led the government side in the talks.
This morning, queues of vehicles clogged the roads in various parts of the national capital, as police closed Singhu and Tikri’s borders with Haryana to traffic and tightened controls elsewhere in the face of farmers’ agitation against the new agricultural laws of the Center. .
The closure of the borders has also caused heavy traffic on other alternative routes between Delhi and Haryana.
Farmers on the Delhi-Noida border belong to various districts in western Uttar Pradesh and want to reach the national capital to join the great uproar launched by farmers in Punjab and Haryana to protest against the new agricultural laws. More protesters converged near the borders of the national capital as farmers’ uproar against farm laws seemed to intensify, prompting Delhi Police to improve security and place concrete barriers at all points of entry from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
Farmers have expressed their fear that the Center’s farm laws would pave the way for the dismantling of the minimum support price system, leaving them at the “mercy” of large corporations. However, the government has argued that the new laws will provide farmers with better opportunities and usher in new technologies in agriculture.
The farmers, who on Sunday announced they would block five entry points to Delhi in the coming days and rejected the Center’s offer to hold talks once they move to the Burari field, said they have come for a decisive battle and urged the Prime Minister Narendra. Modi to hear his “mann ki baat”.
Peaceful protests were taking place on the Singhu and Tikri borders, where farmers had gathered from Punjab and Haryana, for the sixth day.
The number of farmers on the Ghazipur border also increased, with more joining from Uttar Pradesh.
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