Farmers' protest sites at Delhi's borders have turned into fortresses with police beefing up security and strengthening barricades.

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked the government over barricades and road blocks set up at farmer agitation sites on Delhi's borders, and asked the Centre to "build bridges and not walls". Farmers' protest sites at Delhi's borders have turned into fortresses with police beefing up security and strengthening barricades.

Iron rods have been hooked 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.

Another portion of the highway at the Delhi-Haryana border is practically blocked as a makeshift cement wall has come up there.

At Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, there are multi-layer barricades to stop the movement of vehicles. Barbed wire has also been put up to keep off people on foot.

"GOI, Build bridges, not walls!," Gandhi said on Twitter posting pictures of barricades and road blocks at farmer protest sites.

GOI,Build bridges, not walls! https://t.co/C7gXKsUJAi
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) 1612239224000

The Congress has been demanding that the Centre should talk to the protesting farmers and repeal the three farm laws, against which they have been protesting.

प्रधानमंत्री जी, अपने किसानों से ही युद्ध? https://t.co/gn2P90danm
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) 1612242792000

Farmer unions on Monday announced a countrywide 'chakka jam' on February 6 when they would block national and state highways for three hours in protest against the Internet ban in areas near their agitation sites, harassment allegedly meted out to them by authorities, and other issues.

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Security beefed up!

The Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border at Ghazipur turned into a fortress Monday with multi-layer barricades and a heavy security deployment at the site where farmers are protesting against the new central laws.

Protest sites turn fortresses

With parked DTC buses sealing the main entry points, multi-layer barricades and checkpoints, Ghazipur, the new focal point of the farmers' agitation, appeared to be turning into a fortress. Security arrangements continue to be strengthened at the Delhi-UP border site, which is galvanising farmers from Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand days after an emotional appeal by Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait.

Cement Barriers

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.

Fences over barricades

Workers were seen installing fences over barricades as Delhi Police tightens security at Ghazipur border where farmer's stage a protest against farm law, in New Delhi.

Nails on roads adjoining highway

Multiple layers of barricades have been put up and nails cemented on the road on routes adjoining the flyover in a bid to prevent movement of vehicles.

2 Comments on this Story

	Shyama Mukherjee3 hours ago What would happen if the same man was at the helm of affairs. We the netizens are saved from the disastrous outcome
	aneelgn 3 hours ago Even after what happened on 26th January? What about the police and other citizens? The search for this man's missing brain continues!

Build bridges, not walls: Rahul Gandhi to Centre on barricades at Delhi borders

Iron rods have been hooked 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.