G20 Summit: Red Alert in Panjab, US President Denied Press Conference

Before the G-20 Summit in Delhi, on 9 Sep, the Panjab Police issued a red alert and beefed up security across the state. As directed by the director general of police (DGP), Panjab, Gaurav Yadav, police teams conducted flag marches at all the sensitive areas in all 28 police districts from 9am to 11am simultaneously. At the same time, cordon and search operations (CASOs) were conducted at all the railway stations and bus stands from 2pm to 7pm. No other state in the country experienced CASO, neither was any flag march conducted anywhere else. This raises the question of why Panjab was singled out. After the G-20 summit - where the US President was not allowed a press conference and foreign media were curtailed - in Vietnam, Biden said he raised the issue of human rights, the role of civil society, and the importance of a free press with Modi. Strangely, Biden's address to the media was suddenly stopped by a White House staffer.