The Delhi Police began dismantling barricades and concertina wires from the anti-farm Laws protest site in Ghazipur, on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, on Friday.
The police erected many levels of iron and cement barricades, as well as at least five layers of concertina wires, in the aftermath of the violence on January 26 during the farmers’ protest against three problematic agricultural legislation.
Hundreds of protesters, mostly from the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), have been blocking a road section on the NH9 in Ghazipur since November 2020, and police officers and labourers were seen removing iron nails that had been studded on the road.
The BKU is a supporter of the Anti-Farm Laws Movement led by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, a farmers’ collective (SKM).
The dismantling of barriers follows a Supreme Court ruling issued on October 21 ordering the unblocking of roadways that had been closed to commuters owing to protests at Delhi’s border ports of Singhu, Tikri, and Ghazipur.
While the protesting farmers allege that the three laws passed last year are against their interests, the Centre claims that these measures are pro-farmer.
