Police have asked the residents of half-a-dozen apartments in Lucknow not to hang clothes in their balconies from November 19 to 22 as part of security measures for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the area for an event.

“I have to inform you that the honourable Prime Minister of India’s programme was proposed at police headquarters in Gomti Nagar Extension area. The high buildings in the adjoining areas have been identified with the view of the security (of the Prime Minister), which includes Saraswati Apartment near the police headquarters,” a letter sent by Prashant Kumar Mishra, the officer in charge of Gomti Nagar Extension police station, to the residents’ welfare association reads.

“It is to inform all the residents living in Saraswati Apartment…, Gomti Nagar Extension, Lucknow, not to put their clothes in their balconies and other places between November 19 and November 22,” the letter adds.

The residents will have to inform the police if any relatives visit them during these four days.

Mishra told reporters that similar letters have been sent to some other residents’ welfare associations as well.

“We have to follow certain security measures and the directions of the Special Protection Group that looks after the security of the Prime Minister. There would be security personnel on the roofs of at least half-a-dozen apartment buildings here,” he added.

Modi will address a meeting of the directors-general of police of all states at the police headquarters in Gomti Nagar Extension on Saturday.

A resident of one of the apartments said: “It would have been better had the government given us dry cleaners.”

“The way the police are visiting our apartments time and again scares our children. They have stopped playing in the ground within the boundary of our building,” another resident said.