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Our way or the highway -Shriya Mohan

-The Hindu Business Line

Farmers from Punjab and Haryana have turned the Singhu border into a makeshift and vibrant village. The elderly peasants in kurta pyjamas and young men in track pants and sneakers who have gathered there are looking not for largesse — but just a fair deal

* The laws seek to remove the guarantee of a minimum support price (MSP) and deregulate crop pricing, which, the farmers hold, will leave them at the mercy of big corporations and market forces.

* Every Sikh farmer gives away a tenth of his produce to a gurudwara. So there is always an abundance of food in gurudwaras.

* When the Centre tried to get them to form a smaller committee of five to seven members to take the discussions further, the 32 groups refused to be divided. Talk to each one of us, they insisted.

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With six months’ rations loaded onto a tractor trolley, Ranbir Singh got ready for the battleground — some 200 km away from his village in Ambala. He and his brother were aware that they were in for a long haul as they geared up for the journey to Delhi. “We knew that we will either come back victorious or not return at all,” he says.

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