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There was a small victory for farmers protesting at Delhi borders, when authorities began removing barricades at Tikri and Ghazipur borders. Removal work at the Tikri site began on October 28, 2021 while police started work at the Ghazipur place on the following day.

Highways leading to farmer protest sites at Tikri, Ghazipur and Singhu borders of Delhi were closed off since January 26 using rows of cement barricades, iron nails on streets, barbed wire and even iron rods. While carriageways were left open to allow ambulances and emergency services, the barricades posed a major inconvenience for citizens. However, JCBs began removing the equipment on Thursday after a Supreme Court hearing where authorities were criticised for stopping traffic indefinitely. The move also serves as a victory for farmers who had removed the barricades on their side after the October 21 hearing and demanded that police do the same.

“Farmers have maintained from day one that they haven’t blocked the roads but the police have. Glad that courts saw it and directed police to do the needful. A small victory but many more to come,” said Advocate Vasu Kukreja working for the legal team of the farmers’ movement.

Even so, it is unsure when the barricades will be removed completely and the holes along the highway will be filled.

Hours before the removal work began at Tikri, three women farmers died on Thursday morning after a dumper truck slammed into the women’s group sitting on the divider at Jhajjar road. Similarly, over 600 farmers have died while participating in the farmers struggle against the three contentious farm laws.

Farmer leaders asserted that they will not end their demonstrations until the three laws are repealed namely: the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance & Farm Services Act, Farmer’s Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act. Further, farmers demand the legalisation of Minimum Support Price (MSP), dismissal of the Electricity (Amendment) Bill and contentious clauses in the Air Quality Management law.

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On a day the Union Budget was presented, and as expected conversations across the country featured developments, better roads, enhanced infrastructure, world class connectivity, border roads leading into the National Capital were being dug up. The massive barricading process that began over the last weekend of January, as the farmer protest crossed into its third month of a sit-in on Uttar Pradesh-Delhi-Haryana borders, has continued. The visuals that trickled in once in a while, as the internet connectivity too remains elusive at the protest sites, show a city preparing to lock itself in.

After the digging, concrete was poured between barricades in what appears to be the beginning of a permanent roadblock, this was reported over social media, from the Delhi side of Singhu border, and Ghazipur border, while large nails and sharp iron rods have been embedded on main road at Tikri. Most of the farmers are sitting in protest against the three farm laws on a section of National Highways and along the by-pass roads. They have all left a clear carriageway to let ambulances, emergency vehicles, and locals pass by unobstructed, langars and medical camps are run in the service lanes, and the discussions and speeches are from stages set up on roads that have already been occupied, many also sleep on these roads at night on the carriageway closed to vehicular traffic. 

As the protest progressed, so did the massive barricades put in place by security agencies. These new high level barricading which included serrated barbed wires on top of the police barricades which are packed together thickly, along with the embedded nails these will not only prevent all vehicles, but will also stop anyone from walking along the routes. All barricades, which do not look easy to dismantle in case of emergencies, are manned by large contingents of security personnel of various agencies. 

These measures will also inconvenience local people, and cause traffic jams even on other roads around the areas, many Delhi Metro stations are also shut down without prior warning whenever orders come. Slowly, but surely this can also turn public opinion against protesting people, as an inconvenienced office goer, or someone who needs to get to a hospital etc forgets its the government run security agencies who have put up barricades not the farmers or protestors. This was last seen in the national capital during the anti-CAA protest sit-ins of 2019-2020. Especially at Shaheen Bagh protest site which was on one carriageway of the road connecting Noida to Delhi. Cut to 2021, and the process of barricading, and cutting off protest sites seems to be on overdrive.

According to a report by the Hindustan Times, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Monday had closed the gates of Brigadier Hoshiar Singh, Bahadurgarh City, Pandit Shree Ram Sharma and Tikri border stations. However they were opened at the end of the day.

The Delhi traffic police had also issued an alert for the commuters travelling towards ISBT Anand Vihar, stating, “Traffic will remain affected on Road no. 56 from ISBT Anand Vihar to Ghazipur due to closing of border”.

According to news report the suspension of mobile internet services will now continue till 11 pm February 2 at Singhu, Ghazipur, and Tikri borders, by order of the MHA that stated: 

“In exercise of the power conferred under Sub-rule 1 of Rule 2 of the Temporary Suspension of Telecom Services (Public Emergency or Public Safety) rules 2017 and in the interest of maintaining public safety and averting public emergency, it is necessary and expedient to order the temporary suspension of Internet services in the areas of Singhu. Ghazipur, and Tikri and their adjoining areas in the NCT of Delhi from 23:00 Hours on January 31 to 23:00 Hours on February 2.”

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