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A farmer catches up on the news at the ongoing protest against three contentious fam laws, at the Singhu border between Delhi and Haryana
PATIALA: Electricity taken away, the generators brought along now serve farmers in their protest camps outside Delhi. Some of these sets are owned, some on rent.
The farmers need to charge their mobile phones and operate the roti makers in the langar kitchens. BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan) general secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokari Kalan said: “The farmers are lucky they had their own gen-sets and solar batteries to run electrical appliances. But we need more generators after the government shut our streetlights, water supply, and internet to suppress the agitation. We had to call village electricians from Punjab.”
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She would have gone to sit at Delhi’s borders, says Jasbir, but she will let the protesters gathered there speak for her, “they are sitting there in the cold for all of us, not just for themselves”.
She is held back by her circumstances. Her husband is unable to speak or hear, and after the death of her father-in-law and brother-in-law, she is the provider for her family of six which includes her mother-in-law and three school-going children.
“The farm laws are Modi’s mann ki baat, not ours”, says Jasbir. “Bigger private players will give us good prices for the first one or two years, and then … If Modi is worried about me, he should give more jobs here first.”