IN PICS | Delhi Police Remove Barricades From Ghazipur Protest Site, Farmers Say 'Will Go To Parliament'

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Delhi Police removed a large portion of the barricades and concertina wires it had put in place at the anti-farm laws protest site at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, where scores of protestors continued to stay put on Friday. (Image: PTI)

Speaking about the same, Delhi Police said that the process of removing the barricades from National Highway 9 has started. The temporary barricading is being removed to ease out vehicular movement. However, National Highway 24 was already open for traffic. (Image: PTI)

Multiple layers of iron and cement barricades, and at least five layers of concertina wires were put up last year. The arrangements were further beefed up after the January 26 violence in Delhi during the farmers' protest against three new agriculture laws of the Centre. (Image: PTI)

The opening of the road stretch would help thousands of commuters in Ghaziabad, Delhi and Noida as well as those travelling between the national capital and the interiors of Uttar Pradesh, towards Meerut and beyond. (Image: PTI)

Police officials and labourers were also seen removing the iron nails that were studded on NH-9 at Ghazipur, where hundreds of protesters, mostly members of the BKU, have been occupying a road stretch since November 2020. (Image: PTI)

Meanwhile, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said the future course of the protest would be chalked out by the SKM. Farmers want to go to Delhi once the barricades are completely removed and are open to talks with the Centre to resolve the situation. (Image: PTI)

The process to remove the barricades started following the October 21 Supreme Court direction that called for unblocking of the roads that have remained out of bounds for commuters due to the protests at Delhi's border points of Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur. (Image: PTI)

Thousands of farmers have been camping at Ghazipur, protesting against the three contentious laws. According to a senior police officer, some layers of barricades placed by the police at the Tikri border were removed on Thursday night. (Image: PTI)

The Supreme Court had, on October 21, said the farmers protesting at Delhi's borders have the right to agitate but they cannot block the roads indefinitely. BKU spokesperson Saurabh Upadhyay said that if the government wants the logjam to end, it should talk to the farmers now and we are ready for it. (Image: PTI)

"We are sitting on the borders of Delhi and once the barricades are removed, we will head towards Delhi. We will go to Parliament, where the laws were enacted," BKU leader Pawan Khatana said.