The traffic in several parts of the State capital remained crippled for hours on Monday; courtesy three programmes scheduled in the city. However, the police officials made least arrangements to tackle the traffic jams that continued till late evening.
The important programmes that were scheduled in the city on Monday were- meeting of political party representatives with the Chief Election Commissioner at the State Election office, Yuva Sammelan at lal Parade ground and the third one was All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) convention at TT Nagar Dussehra ground.
Traffic movement towards Jehangirabad, New Market and MP Nagar was cluttered due to Yuva Sammelan organised at lal Parade ground. The commuters had a hard time waiting for clearing the traffic as several vehicles were queued from Jehangirabad till MVM which blocked the traffic from Governor House towards Ravindra Bhavan.
Movement of buses carrying youths in the city started early in the day giving a tough time for the city people in reaching office, shops and workplaces on time and similar was the situation of buses taking students to the schools.
It took hours for the youth who were returning from lal Parade ground. Since, there were no adequate arrangements, all the people reached the roads all of a sudden and disrupted the traffic. At few places, a couple of traffic policemen tried to manage the traffic but the movement was slow and remained sluggish as the participants took hours to vacate the venue.
Another spot of the city which observed traffic trouble was Board Office Square. At the Board Office Square VHP activists staged protest during the day time. The protest continued till the evening disrupting the normal traffic which was eased by late evening. Though the activists were protesting by covering only a portion of the square, a major part of the road was encroached upon by leaving commuters with virtually little or no space to commute on the road.
Traffic movement from DB Mall to Habibganj, Jyoti Talkies Square and Shivaji Nagar were clogged and long queues were witnessed for hours. Gathering of All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) representatives at the TT Nagar Dussehra ground created traffic jam in almost all the parts of New Market and Kamla Park areas. The lily talkies square also witnessed beeline of vehicles when the gathering matured and took a massive shape.