Delhi NCR National Capital Region saw a chaotic start to the week with huge traffic jams on key routes with neighbouring cities Gurugram and Noida many other states stepped up security on Monday over the Bharat Bandh call by some groups against Agnipath, the new military recruitment scheme. More than 50 people, including three Congress MLAs, were held as demonstrations intensified against the recruitment plan in the armed forces revealed just last week by the government along the Singhu border between the national capital and Haryana. Rail traffic remains affected too. nbsp;Here are ten updates on the Bharat Bandh Agnipath stir:1. On Monday afternoon, some Youth Congress blocked a rail track in Delhi and stopped a train, a dramatic video showed. The Congress has said it would be continuing the protest against the centre over the recruitment plan and the questioning of Gandhis by the centre in the National Herald case. Rahul Gandhi and other top party leaders have been questioning the centre over the scheme.2. Security checks along the borders of the national capital slowed down the road traffic. Long queues of cars and buses lined up on roads were seen at the Delhi Gurugram Expresway and also the Delhi Noida routes.3.
In Haryana, demonstrations continued in Fatehabad and the Rohtak district, news agency PTI reported, adding that was a heavy deployment of police at railway stations, including those in Ambala, Rewari and Sonipat in Haryana and Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar in Punjab.4. In Punjab, after violence was reported at the Ludhiana railway station on Saturday, huge police forces were seen on roads. Heavy security has been deployed at the Jalandhar railway station amid the Bharat Bandh call by some organisations against the Agnipath scheme. We ve sufficient force, and we have deputed 80 per cent of our own city force. Besides, we also have deployed the Rapid Action Force and the Punjab Armed Police, police officer Jagmohan Singh was quoted as saying
