A policeman, one of nearly 2,500 manning the border Tuesday, stood atop the UP Gate flyover as part of bandobast. From his vantage point in front of the water cannon, he could see a sea of increasingly impatient farmers ready to march into Delhi. One of them was his father.
New Delhi: The yellow barricades erected at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border on Tuesday to prevent farmers from entering the capital didn’t merely divide the protesters and Delhi Police; in at least one case, they also drew a wedge between a family. A policeman, one of nearly 2,500 manning the border Tuesday, stood atop the UP Gate flyover as part of bandobast. From his vantage point in front of the water cannon, he could see a sea of increasingly impatient farmers ready to march into Delhi. One of them was his father.
“I belong to village Sisauli in District Muzaffarnagar,” the policeman, who wished not to be identified, told The Indian Express. “Nearly 200-300 people from our village were part of the Kisan Kranti Yatra. My father was also one of them,” he said. Sisauli is also the village of Naresh Tikait, the Bhartiya Kisan Union leader who was heading the protests.
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