The DND flyway on Thursday witnessed massive traffic jam for over two hours when scores of Samajwadi Party (SP) workers gathered at the toll plaza to welcome Rakesh Yadav, Minister for State of UP Government.
The traffic movement between Ashram Chowk of national Capital to Film City of Noida was almost paralysed and it took at least two to three hours to cover the 7.5 km stretch. Noida Traffic Police took two to three hours to resume normal traffic.
Around 11 am, nearly 500 party workers reached the plaza along with 200 motor cars. They parked their vehicles at the Delhi-Noida toll gate and its surrounding vicinity and waited for the Minister for nearly two hours. In the meantime, traffic movement went from slow to stagnant in a short while.
The party workers did not care for the traffic police and traffic marshalls deployed by DND authority. The traffic chaos ended when the Minister departed from the flyway.
While talking about the traffic snarls, the SP leaders said that though they are concerned with the problem but they want to greet the Minister while crossing the border of Delhi.
“As DND falls near Delhi-Noida border, we have no other option to gather at the plaza. We had informed the DND operator and traffic police earlier about the function and it is their duty to make necessary arrangements to avoid traffic snarls,” stated a local leader of Samajwadi Party.
This is not the first time when SP members have jammed the DND, earlier in January they had also jammed the stretch while welcoming an UP Minister.
As we noticed traffic jam on the carriageway, scores of traffic personnel were deployed and the jam finally moved after 1 pm when the party workers left the plaza.
“As hundreds of vehicles were parked near the plaza, traffic movement got slowed for few hours but later it was resumed,” said a senior official of traffic department.