Protests in city force DMRC to close Metro gates

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Friday closed the gates of some stations after scores of students along with the members of the All-India Students’ Association (AISA) and Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP’s) Chatr-Yuva Sangharsh Samiti (CYSS) staged a protest over the Central Government’s ‘Agnipath’ scheme for recruitment in the armed forces and demanded its rollback.

In a series of tweets, the DMRC alerted commuters about the closure of gates of stations due to security reasons. “Due to security reasons, Gate No. 1 at ITO Metro Station and Gate No. 1 & 2 at Dhansa Bus Stand Metro Station are closed, all other gates are operational,” the DMRC tweeted around 12:19 PM.