Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit on Wednesday to inaugurate the Patanjali Research Institute, the district administration and police have declared zero zone along the stretch from Bahadrabad to Roorkee from 8 am on Tuesday. Keeping in view the possibility of 500 busses coming to the holy city from several districts of the state, the police would go for traffic diversions on Delhi National Highway and Haridwar- Saharanpur state highway. The vehicles going from Haridwar to Delhi would be routed through laksar and the vehicles coming from Delhi would be routed from Roorkee via Bhagwanpur and Dhanori to Haridwar. Entry of heavy vehicles would be restricted from 10 pm on Tuesday. The second in command of Patanjali Yog Peeth after yoga guru Swami Ramdev, Acharya Balkrishna said, “PM would visit herbal garden, microbiology and in-vivo lab and herbal museum following the inauguration of Patanjali Research Institute at 11.45 pm. At 12.20, he is scheduled to visit Yog Bhawan where people from across the country would be gathered.”
During a briefing to the cops on Tuesday morning at Patanjali Yog Peeth phase 2 on Tuesday morning, ADG law and order Ram Singh Meena said, “We are all alert against the backdrop of escalated terrorist activities in the country.” IG Sanjay Gunjyal said that they were leaving nothing to chance as far as security involving the VVIP visit is concerned. SSP Krishna Kumar said that four companies of PAC, bomb disposal squad and lIU would be kept on the alert mode while three SPs, seven COs, 19 inspectors and 76 sub- inspectors along with 462 constables would be deployed.