Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday shared photos of barricades and nail-studded roads, intended to be a deterrent for the protesters. “GOI, Build bridges, not walls!” he captioned the tweet.
Two months into the protest against three farm laws, there are no signs of abatement. While the BJP-led government has expressed its willingness to put the laws on hold and bring in amendments, the farmers insist that the laws be repealed. According to a PTI report from Monday, workers under the watch of police personnel on Monday hooked iron rods between two rows of cement barriers on a flank of the main highway at the Singhu border to further restrict the movement of protesters agitating against the new farm laws at the site. Another portion of the highway at the Delhi-Haryana border is practically blocked now as a makeshift cement wall has come up there. Reportedly, the work progressed as hundreds of security personnel, including the Provincial Armed Constabulary and Rapid Action Force, kept vigil and drones flew overhead to monitor the situation.
