With the farmers set to return home victorious on December 11 after more than a year of protest against farm laws at Delhi-Haryana borders, Haryana Police on Friday said that it has made elaborate arrangements to ensure hassle-free movement of traffic on national highways in the state.
“In view of the return of farmers groups to various destinations in Punjab after the ending of farmers’ agitation, district Superintendents of Police have been instructed to ensure appropriate traffic, security and law and order arrangements to ensure smooth flow of traffic in all districts between Delhi to Ambala and Bahadurgarh towards Hisar/Jind,” said an official spokesman of Haryana Police. He said that it is expected that farmers from Kundli and Tikri borders will go back to various destinations in Punjab while passing through Haryana’s districts of Sonipat, Panipat, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Ambala, Jhajjar, Rohtak, Jind, Hansi, Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa in large groups that may become a large motorcade. Keeping this in view, adequate arrangements to ensure normal movement of traffic have been put in place by the police, the spokesman said. At the same time, citizens are also being informed in advance so that they can able to plan and modify their journey on highways in the above districts accordingly to avoid any inconvenience, he added. The final call to end the historic agitation came on Thursday after the Centre sent a formal letter to Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), agreeing to several pending demands.