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Traffic jams at many places

Staff Reporter

The longest was reported from Jwalaheri Market

NEW DELHI: Agitating traders blocked roads during the bandh causing traffic jams in different parts of the Capital on Tuesday.

"At most places, the jams were cleared within 10-15 minutes," said a Traffic Police officer, claiming that unlike during the three-day bandh earlier this month, the instructions this time were to clear the blockades as quickly as possible.

The first blockade by protesters was reported around 10-15 a.m. from Aurobindo Marg near Outer Ring Road in South Delhi. Around the same time, protesting traders blocked Jail Road in West Delhi. Then at 11 a.m., the traders moved to Hari Nagar and blocked the traffic there for a few minutes. A traffic jam was also reported from Nangloi Chowk.

In Central Delhi, the protesters blocked Arya Samaj Road in Karol Bagh at about 11-30 a.m. Around the same time, both the carriageways of Ring Road were blocked at Raja Garden. This disrupted the vehicular movement on Ring Road for some time. Minutes later, the police received information about a traffic jam at Patel Nagar due to a blockade. This was soon cleared.

Around noon, the traders and their supporters blocked the traffic at Laxmi Nagar on Vikas Marg in East Delhi and Chhawla Chowk in the Najafgarh area of South-West Delhi, while another snarl was reported from near Rajdoot Hotel at Bhogal in South Delhi. Here the protesters also flattened the tyres of some vehicles.

About 1,000 protesters gathered at the Faiz Road crossing in Central Delhi around 12-15 p.m. shouting slogans against the sealing drive. As it took the police half-an-hour to disperse them, there was a major traffic pile-up. More traffic jams were reported from Anand Parbat. At Vikaspuri in West Delhi the traders targeted Outer Ring Road and brought the vehicular movement there to a halt for some time. The protesters also blocked the traffic at Moti Nagar Chowk on Najafgarh Road.

The longest road blockage was reported from Jwalaheri Market where the protesters stopped the traffic for about an hour in the afternoon. Around 1-15 pm, some traders blocked the Mayapuri flyover, while another traffic jam was reported from Nangloi-Najafgarh Road around 2-30 p.m. Late in the afternoon, a snarl was reported from Lajwanti Chowk at Mayapuri in South-West Delhi.

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