Rohtak is set for two separate political marches on November 1, with the BJP and the Aam Aadmi Party planning programmes on different issues that could place additional pressure on traffic management, crowd control and security arrangements in the city. The BJP will hold a march on the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, while the AAP will march against drug abuse in Haryana.
The BJP programme will be led by Nitin Nabin, who is visiting Rohtak for the first time after being appointed the party’s national chief. State BJP president Archana Gupta outlined the programme during a news conference and said the party would use the march to present its position on the electoral roll revision exercise.
The presence of the national party president is expected to draw leaders and workers from across Haryana. The event is also intended to demonstrate the BJP’s organisational strength, according to the details reported by the party. Gupta accused the Congress of spreading unrest and anarchy against a democratically elected government.
The AAP has announced a separate march in Rohtak to highlight what it describes as Haryana’s growing drug menace. AAP functionary Sushil Gupta, who was in Rohtak on Friday, shared details of the programme and said the party would use the event to draw attention to drug abuse and demand action from the Nayab Singh Saini government.
The two marches will require coordination between the organisers and the local administration, particularly if their routes or timings overlap. The police will have to manage the movement of participants, regular commuters and other road users while maintaining security around the gatherings. The report did not specify the routes, timings or traffic diversions for either march.
The planned events come on the same day as a proposed rally of the opposition INDIA bloc at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan. A senior Congress functionary said Haryana, particularly districts surrounding Delhi, would mobilise more than one lakh people for the Delhi rally. That mobilisation could add to movement on roads connecting Haryana with the national capital, although the report did not provide an official traffic plan.
For Rohtak, the immediate administrative challenge is to keep political mobilisation from disrupting routine public movement. Separate marches by competing parties create a requirement for advance route coordination, deployment planning and communication with residents, businesses and commuters. No official police or municipal advisory on the arrangements had been cited in the report.
The BJP and AAP programmes are scheduled for November 1, when the police and administration are expected to coordinate security, crowd management and traffic arrangements for the city’s separate political gatherings.
