From Tikri, farmers travel to Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh to fetch supplies
Over 100 members from JSO are also at Tikri, cooking food for more than 10,000 people every day. Some of the members also run a small medical centre, handing out cough and cold medicines for free. Updated: December 21, 2020 2:32:30 pm
Arhtiyas in Punjab began their four-day strike against income tax raids, which they allege were conducted to intimidate them for supporting the farmers stir against the Centre s agriculture laws.
Every day, Dev Roz, a 21-year-old student from Rewari and a member of the Jamindara Student Organisation (JSO), travels to five different places to buy drinking water for protesters at the Tikri border. At 10 pm, he first receives a text from the farmer leaders about the requirement. He then sets off in a truck, buying all the bottles at night so he can reach the protest site early the next day.
updated: Dec 20 2020, 15:15 ist
The ongoing farmers protests at various borders outside New Delhi has entered its 25th day and has shown no signs of stopping. Whether you have been to the venue or have seen visuals from the border, the sight of tractors, tents, tarpaulins, and turban-clad Sikhs preparing and serving up
langar to those present is a familiar one.
Now, who are these people? Where are they from?
The Indian Express answered some of these questions in a report.
1. Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Committee
The Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Committee is said to be the largest group that has descended upon the Singhu border outside the national capital. They are usually found right next to the stage and can be seen serving hundreds of people almost throughout the day. They have also provided shelters for men and women, apart from tarpaulins and essential goods like medicines.
Gurdwaras to volunteer groups to NGOs: Who’s feeding protesters at the borders
From farmers of a particular village cooking by their tractor-trolleys to feed themselves and share with the public, to large-scale langars sewa through feeding runs throughout the protests. Updated: December 20, 2020 8:00:06 am
Langars at Singhu; farmers can be seen cooking by their tractor-trolleys to feed themselves and share with the public while several large-scale langars have
also come up.(Abhinav Saha)
Along the several-kilometres-long stretches of tractors and protesters at Singhu and Tikri, the site of food being prepared and served is ubiquitous. From farmers of a particular village cooking by their tractor-trolleys to feed themselves and share with the public, to large-scale langars sewa through feeding runs throughout the protests. And some of the largest langars give an idea of the organisations involved.
Fight is against three farm laws, not the govt, says boxer Vijender Singh ANI | Updated: Dec 18, 2020 17:26 IST
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): Boxer and Congress leaderVijender Singh on Friday distributed food at a langar organised by the Jamindara Student Organisation (JSO) for protesting farmers at the Tikri Border on Friday.
While speaking to ANI, Vijender Singh said that his fight is not against the government but against the newly enacted farm laws. We are here to serve the farmers of our country. Our fight is not against the government but the three black laws, he said.
Singh had also joined the farmers agitation at Singhu border (Haryana-Delhi border) on December 6 and said that he will return his Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award if the new agriculture laws are not withdrawn.
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