Delhi-Meerut Expressway shut once again: Protest by farmers.
Key sentence:
- Around 7.30 am Tuesday, motor vehicle movement on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway absolutely stopped.
- The Delhi and Uttar Pradesh Police were induced by the sudden blocking of the expressway to redirect traffic to alternative borders.
- This is really the second time that the expressway has been completely blocked by the farmers.
- The Delhi Traffic Police has used its Twitter account at 7.37 am to update the public on the shutdown of carriageways.
Around 7.30 am Tuesday, motor vehicle movement on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway absolutely stopped as farmers protesting against all the three new farm laws blocked all their carriages at the Ghazipur-Ghaziabad (UP Gate) border for the past 27 days.
Delhi Traffic police informed by their Twitter Account:
The Delhi Traffic Police has used its Twitter account at 7.37 am to update the public on the shutdown of carriageways at the border between Ghazipur as well as Ghaziabad.
Deputy police commissioner (east) Jasmeet Singh also reported that the protesting farmers had blockaded the border.
The Delhi and Uttar Pradesh Police were prompted:
The Delhi and Uttar Pradesh Police were induced by the sudden blocking of the expressway to redirect traffic to alternative borders, such as those at Anand Vihar, Chopra as well as Apsara.
Keeping in mind that the blockade may lead to traffic disruption during the morning office hours, the Uttar Pradesh administration, as well as Delhi police officials, are negotiating with the protesting farmers the reopening of at least one carriageway.
Since they started their agitation last month, farmers also protesting at UP Gate border have blocked the expressway’s carriageway as well as service roads going through Delhi from Ghaziabad.
Expressway completely blocked by the farmers for the second time:
This is really the second time that the expressway has been completely blocked by the farmers since Monday afternoon, who says that many farmers from Uttar Pradesh as well as Uttarakhand have been prevented from proceeding to the borders of Delhi and enter the agitation.
The near hour-long obstruction on Monday was cleared after the UP administration officials ensured the farmers that no one would stop.
The Singh and Tikri borders remain to be closed:
The borders of Singh as well as Tikri, where thousands of farmers protest, continue to stay closed while vehicles entering Delhi from Noida are opened to one carriageway at the Chilla (Delhi-Noida link road) border. DND, New Ashok Nagar, Kalindi Kunj, Kondli, and Dallupura are being diverted to other borders by motorists heading to Noida.
