In order to maintain law and order in the wake of farmers’ Delhi Chalo march protest against the three farm related Bills passed by the Central Government, the Delhi Police again on Tuesday morning intensified vehicle checking at Delhi-Gurugram border on the National Highway-48 which resulted in massive traffic congestion.
The huge traffic congestion witnessed on the border and around 2 km long queue of vehicles were seen during rush hours.
Commuters mostly office goers were stuck in the jam. The Delhi Police on Tuesday put up barricades on the border and only two lanes were open for the traffic entering the national capital.
Also, in view of Nuh and Rajasthan farmer’s who have extended their support to protesting farmers. Multiple traffic blocks built up through the day on many roads leading to Delhi as the Haryana Police took strict measures to prevent the protesting farmers from entering the national Capital.
The Gurugram police especially beefed up security at Bilaspur Chowk, Panchgaon Chowk, Gurugram-Taurau checkpoint, Gurugram-Nuh border and on the Delhi-Gurugram border at Sirhaul.
The traffic movement was also slow at these points as Gurugram Police personnel checked vehicles for farmers and protesters looking to enter Gurugram and Delhi.
District administration Gurugram and the Gurugram police are mainly wary that farmers in Gurugram, Rajasthan, Nuh along with Haryana’s khap panchayats may join the farmers’ march towards the national Capital.
In the previous week thousands of Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh farmers had marched towards Delhi, breaching barricades and faced water cannons to mark their presence in Delhi.
The Gurugram Police are already on high alert amid farmers’ protests. Personnel have already been deployed at all the connecting borders of the district.
Rapid Action Force and extra police personnel have been reserved to face any untoward situation on the border locations, said Subhash
Boken, spokesperson of the Gurugram police.
Meanwhile, police sources claimed that the Delhi police had received inputs about a number of farmers from Rajasthan who could be entering the national Capital through NH-48, following which both the States’ police alerted their personnel.
“There was no such impact reported in Gurugram. Security has been
beefed since November 26 and strict vigil maintained in all seven border areas,” he added.