{"id":301466,"date":"2018-08-17T06:21:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T06:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301466"},"modified":"2018-08-17T06:21:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T06:21:04","slug":"atal-bihari-vajpayees-funeral-delhi-police-issue-traffic-advisory-make-security-arrangements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/atal-bihari-vajpayees-funeral-delhi-police-issue-traffic-advisory-make-security-arrangements\/","title":{"rendered":"Atal Bihari Vajpayee\u2019s funeral: Delhi Police issue traffic advisory, make security arrangements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301467 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Atal-last-rites-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Atal-last-rites-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Atal-last-rites-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Atal-last-rites-1024x607.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Atal-last-rites-696x413.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Atal-last-rites-1068x633.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Atal-last-rites-709x420.jpg 709w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Atal-last-rites.jpg 1304w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/>The Delhi Police on August 17 have made elaborate security arrangements in wake of last rites procession of former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who dies at 93 on August 16 at AIIMS Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe procession will go to the BJP headquarters on DDU Marg from Krishna Menon Marg, at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1342747193\"><span class=\"aQJ\">9 am.<\/span><\/span> It is expected to reach the cremation ground in the afternoon,\u201d Special Commissioner of Police (law and order) R P Upadhaya said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police expect over 5 lakh people, including VVIPs, politicians, and dignitaries, at the BJP party office as well as the Rashtriya Smriti Sthal near Rajghat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Deputy Commissioner of Police Madhur Verma said, &#8220;They have made elaborate security arrangements in the city today. It will be ensured that the people who come to pay their last respect face minimum inconvenience. Also, there will be no compromise with security&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Delhi Police issued traffic advisory, and almost closed 25 arterial roads from 8:00 am, leading to central Delhi, including Krishna Memon Marg, Akbar Road, Janpath and India Gate C-Hexagon, Shahjahan Road, Zakir Hussain Marg from SBM to India Gate (C-Hexagon), Tilak Marg From C-Hexagon to Tilak Bridge, Bhagwan Dass Road, Sikandara Road among others, to ensure smooth vehicular movement during Vajpayee&#8217;s final journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 2,000 Delhi Armed Police and paramilitary police, along with force from three districts \u2014 Central, North, and New Delhi \u2014 will be on the ground in order to ensure security and smooth movement during the procession.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police are putting up CCTVs on the stretch and local police will be deployed at every intersection, apart from gunmen and snipers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi Police on August 17 have made elaborate security arrangements in wake of last rites procession of former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who dies at 93 on August 16 at AIIMS Delhi. \u201cThe procession will go to the BJP headquarters on DDU Marg from Krishna Menon Marg, at 9 am. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[1379,2208,517],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301468,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301466\/revisions\/301468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}