HARYANA POLICE ON TOES IN AMBALA

CHANDIGARH/AMBALA: With leaders of the main opposition party Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) further mobilising its workers from across the state to reach Ambala on Thursday to march towards Ismailpur village on Punjab border to dig the Satluj-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal, Haryana Police have made elaborate security arrangements to prevent any disruption to law and order in Ambala city as well as on National Highway-1.

Ambala superintendent of police Abhishek Jorwal told HT that at least four additional companies (having about 400 personnel) of Haryana Police have been brought from Kaithal, Kurukshetra, Karnal and Panipat to beef up security in the area.

He said traffic diversions have also been announced in the city to prevent any chaos on the rwo-kilometre stretch from Ambala to Shambhu barrier, which is the HaryanaPunjab border on the NH-1.

Earlier, INLD president Ashok Arora and senior leader Rampal Majra met Ambala deputy commissioner Prabhjot Singh, and took permission for using the vegetable market grounds for the assembly of party workers.