Wrestlers’ mahapanchayat protest, tight security in Lutyens’ Delhi ahead of Parliament House inauguration
A senior police officer said that security has been beefed up by increasing police deployment, installation of several barricades and adequate police pickets and besides, intensive patrolling is also being done in the national capital and its border areas to maintain law and order. ,
Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said that thousands of farmers from Uttar Pradesh will assemble at Delhi’s Ghazipur border at 10.30 am on Sunday and then enter the national capital to support the protesting wrestlers. Farmers will also enter Delhi from other border points.
The agitating wrestlers have demanded the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India President Brij Bhushan Singh, who they alleged sexually assaulted several female wrestlers.
PTI