Exercise, reading and sewa : Farmer s protest life at Delhi borders
Exercise, reading and sewa : Farmer s protest life at Delhi borders
New Delhi: Sewa at community kitchens, attending religious discourses, reading newspapers and exercising.
Twenty days on, life has settled into a routine for protesting farmers who are devising ways to crack the code of living through an agitation with no immediate end in sight.
When they are not raising slogans demanding a repeal of the new farm laws or listening to speeches, the protesters, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, are familiarising themselves with their new way of life at Delhi s gateways.
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It’s 7.30 pm and Singh is seated on the highway divider, his legs crossed, barely 50 metres from a police barricade. He is from Ropar and is accompanied by dozens of farmers from the area. For them, the bed is a mattress inside a small cloth tent on the divider.
For others, the night is still young. Nearby, a large screen has been stuck to the side of a tractor. From 7 pm onwards, a movie, primarily on Sikh culture and history, is played for two hours. The screen is connected to a laptop and the movie is streamed through the internet. Every now and then, the dialogues are overshadowed by chants of “Jo Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri Akal”.
DSGMC sets up shelter homes for farmers at Singhu border ANI | Updated: Dec 12, 2020 23:25 IST
New Delhi [India], December 12 (ANI): Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has set up shelter homes for the farmers who are protesting against the farm laws at Singh border (Delhi-Haryana border) for the past 14 days.
DSGMC members are also providing quilts and blankets to the farmers in shelter homes. As long as this protest continues, the DSGMC is standing firmly with them. We will do our best to provide facilities in the shelter homes set up by us. People here are being given shoes and slippers, Majinder Singh Sirsa, president of DSGMC told ANI.
At Ghazipur, protesters tackle mosquitoes with some help
Meanwhile, the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee has prepared thousands of kits for farmers, which include mosquito repellant, toothpaste, brush, soap and shampoo. December 12, 2020 12:37:11 am
Fogging at the Ghazipur border. (Photo by Gajendra Yadav)
Located close to the Ghazipur landfill, the Ghazipur farmer protest site has been teeming with mosquitoes, prompting the Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam to carry out fogging in the area. Protesters, too, have been trying to address the issue themselves.
Balwinder Singh (50), a sewadar from Gurdwara Gaindikhata in Haridwar, swept parts of the protest site in the afternoon. He said: “It is very difficult for everyone around here as there are many mosquitoes. We do our bit to clean the area and keep spraying mosquito repellent through the day. We are all from farming backgrounds; my parents were farmers too. So there’s no reason we should n