Farmers' stir: Protest site emerges as business opportunity for hawkers
With hundreds of protesters joining in every day, the street vendors are gathering at the border hoping for more business.
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Farmers donate blood during a camp at the Singhu border in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Photo | Shekhar Yadav, EPS)
Express News Service
NEW DELHI: Suhail Khan, a 25-year-old cloth hawker, usually remains busy during this time of the year. Khan and his brother, Ahmad, travel to Punjab and Haryana to sell jackets and other winter clothes.
But this year, since the Delhi borders have been blocked by farmers protesting against the Centre’s new agri laws for nearly a month now, Khan, a resident of Bhajanpura, has seized the opportunity to run the business from the streets of Singhu border — the epicentre of the ongoing ‘Delhi Chalo’ protest.