Ludhiana: Commuter faces a difficult time as a member of the Community Blocking Samrala Chowk at Ludhiana-Delhi National Highway for hours on Tuesday, demanding Arora’s arrest, a clothing leader.
All the way to Chandigarh, Delhi, Amritsar, and several city areas were blocked, causing traffic chaos on many routes despite diversion.
Protests began at 9 am, when the agitators sat in the middle of the road and set the barricade and rope to close all stretches.
They raised the slogan against Arora, which was ordered to hurt religious sentiment on October 20 after the viral audio clip was diverted due to protests.
If you are from Chandigarh Road to Samrala Chowk, then please take a diversion from Kohara or Veer Palace.
If you come from Jalan Bypass Jalandhar to Chandigarh Road, then take a diversion from Tajpur Road.
“Even though there is a transfer on all roads connected with Samrala Chowk, traffic congestion cannot be avoided.
In the afternoon, school buses are trapped in congestion and students and parents who are bothered Samrala Chowk.
When even after half an hour I can’t move forward, I returned from the wrong side.
It takes one and a half hours.
“Arora’s mindful, a resident of Mohar Singh Nagar, said,” My children studied at school at Chandigarh Road.
They called me, said the bus they were trapped in jam.
When I went to take them home, I was also stuck in Gridlocks.
I have no choice but to walk to Samrala Chowk.
“Kulpreet Singh, a resident of Shivaji Nagar, said,” I returned from Chandigarh to Ludhiana when I was trapped in a traffic jam near the Veer Palace.
The police were deployed there to divert traffic, but there was Serpentine vehicle queue.
I took more than one and a half hours to reach Shivaji Nagar from the Veer Palace.
The route instead doesn’t last 15 minutes.
“One of the agitators, Jaswant Singh Cheema, said,” The police failed to arrest Arora even though a FIR was submitted against him on October 20.
Protests will continue until he was arrested.
“” A man was injured after he was allegedly attacked by the protesters near Samrala Chowk.
The man has an argument with protesters, which turns into violence.
He was taken to the hospital.
The accusation was verified, “said a police officer who had given the police 72 hours to arrest Arora, otherwise they would protest from the Shambhu border to the Attari border, throughout the Punjab.
Dhindsa said,” We tried to trace the defendant.
Seven people, who helped Arora, had been arrested.
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