Police security lapsed surrounding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to an election rally in northern India's Punjab on January 5. The incident took place in the city of Ferozpur.

Visuals feature the Punjab police clearing the traffic on the flyover in the city during the daytime after a major lapse in the security of the Prime Minister. A delay in Narendra Modi's schedule puts the cops under serious pressure. However, they try to handle the situation as a queue of vehicles awaits to depart from the spot.

Despite having intelligence inputs about protesters, Punjab Police did not follow the 'Blue Book' and had not prepared a contingency route for the Prime Minister's visit. As per the Blue Book, the state police have to prepare a contingency route for the protectee in case of any adverse situation like the one that happened in Punjab during the PM’s visit.

Therefore, the Punjab Police control room failed to inform the pilot vehicle of the motorcade about the so-called protestors on the PM’s route. Any timely information about the roadblock could have prevented PM Modi from getting stuck on the Ferozpur flyover for about 20 minutes. As a result, PM’s car reached close to the spot where the farmers were protesting.