“ Gharo jao rajj ke, kaam hoga gajj ke [If you leave the house with a stomach full of food, you will ace your mission].”
That’s Bilawal Singh’s simple philosophy of running a langar for protesting farmers at Shahjahanpur. “This government is used to dealing with hungry protestors,” he continues, speaking in Punjabi. “Let’s see how they tackle protestors eating plenty.”
Bilawal, 32, and his cousin Rashwinder Singh, 30, farmers from 41 RB village in Rajasthan’s Ganganagar district, are among the thousands of protestors camping at Shahjahanpur on the Rajasthan-Haryana border, around 120 kilometres to the south of Delhi.
It’s one of the sites in and around Delhi where lakhs of farmers and numerous farm unions, mainly from Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan, have been engaged in sit-in protests since November 26, demanding the withdrawal of the three new farm laws pushed through by the central government in September this year.
The laws were first passed as ordinances on June 5, 2020, then introduced as farm bills in Parliament on September 14 and hastened into Acts by the present government on the 20th of that month. The farmers see these laws as devastating to their livelihoods because they will expand the space for large corporates to have even greater power over farmers and farming. They also undermine the main forms of
— source ruralindiaonline.org | Parth M.N | Jan. 2, 2021
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