The Delhi Traffic Police on Thursday took to their Twitter handle to inform commuters that NH-24, connecting Delhi and Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad, has been opened for
use, additionally listing COVID-19 precautions such as wearing a mask,
maintaining social distancing and keeping hand hygiene in place as practices to
be maintained.
The police restricted traffic on several highways
and roads coming to Delhi on Wednesday, a day after the Republic Day violence in
New Delhi during the farmers demonstrations and tractor rally against the farm
laws.
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NH 9 – also known as Delhi Meerut
Expressway – is closed.
Those travelling from Delhi to Ghaziabad on Wednesday were
advised to take Karkari mode, Shahdara or DND.
The farmers protest, going on for more than 60 days now,
seemingly levelled up the agitation on January 26, as cranes, tractors and trucks
entering the capital tore down barricades at Ghazipur, Tikri and Singhu
borders.
Some of the farmers deviated from a previously proposed
route, eventually clashing with the police, leaving many injured on both sides.
Near the ITO, a protesting farmers died after his tractor overturned.
The farmers have been protesting against the farm laws since November, and have based themselves in various border-points of
Delhi.
