New Delhi/London:

A much bigger nationwide flag than the earlier ones has been unfurled on the Indian High Commission’s constructing in London amid protest by Khalistani supporters. The embassy on Monday, in an epic response to protesters, had unfurled a barely smaller flag on the constructing after Khalistani supporters pulled down the Indian flag outdoors the constructing.

Today, as over 2,000 Khalistani supporters turned up once more in entrance of the constructing, a few of them throwing ink, water bottles and powdered colors on the police, the Indian embassy draped the facet of the constructing with the nationwide flag.

Visuals present a few dozen embassy employees on the terrace holding an extended tricolour as in a human chain.

Unlike the chaotic scenes on Sunday, the Khalistani supporters were barricaded across the road with cops standing guard and patrolling the world.

The additional safety in London got here shortly after the police in Delhi eliminated visitors barricades outdoors the British High Commission, in a transfer interpreted by some as an indication of India’s displeasure with the breach in London. The police have defined the transfer as elimination of barricades that have been “creating hurdles” for commuters.

Following protests by India, the London Metropolitan Police have taken no possibilities, parking greater than 20 buses close to the India House and deploying mounted troops to patrol the streets.