Snarls had been reported from each side of the Noida-Higher Noida Expressway on the Mahamaya flyover and adjoining areas from Tuesday morning after hundreds of farmers gathered on the three-lane flyover—blocking two lanes—to attend for Rakesh Tikait, a nationwide spokesperson of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) from Uttar Pradesh, to affix them within the protest in opposition to Noida authority.
Hassled commuters took to social media to vent their ire after being caught in site visitors for one to 2 hours, even as site visitors police insisted that site visitors was transferring at a gradual tempo as the farmers stopped on the Mahamaya flyover together with their automobiles, together with tractor-trolleys.
Visitors inspector Ram Singh mentioned farmers began gathering on the Mahamaya flyover round 11am. As they blocked the flyover to attend for their chief, site visitors police rushed to the spot and requested them to park their automobiles on certainly one of three lanes of the Mahamaya flyover.
“For a brief time frame, the site visitors heading in direction of Delhi was diverted in direction of Charkha roundabout through Sector 94 underpass, however later, as two lanes had been open, site visitors began transferring at a gradual tempo,” mentioned inspector Singh, including that round 50 constables, 10 sub-inspectors, three inspectors, and a site visitors deputy commissioner of police had been deployed on the spot until site visitors cleared and farmers left for the Noida authority workplace to proceed their protest.
The inspector mentioned as greater than 5000 farmers had been gathered on the flyover of their automobiles, and the six-lane expressway site visitors was restricted to only two lanes, the site visitors congestion passed off for a brief time frame till the site visitors police diverted site visitors and opened the flyover lanes blocked by farmers.
Abhinav Sharma, a resident of Sector 128, mentioned he left residence round 10.30am to achieve his workplace in Okhla, however after he received on to the expressway, he was shocked to witness an extended queue of automobiles and caught in site visitors for round one-and-a-half hours. In response to Sharma, he was stranded in a snarl that stretched for nearly 2km from Mahamaya flyover to Sector 126.
Deputy commissioner of police (site visitors) Preeti Yadav mentioned site visitors was transferring at a gradual tempo for a brief time frame as public automobiles plus farmer automobiles had immediately gathered on the flyover.
Tikait mentioned, “We’re protesting in opposition to the Noida authority as a result of they’re demolishing previous abadi of farmers and never giving them land for residential functions. In the event that they proceed to behave in opposition to farmers on this method, then our agitation will proceed.”