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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Punjab farmers have fed country since the Green Revolution, now it must stand by us -Raakhi Jagga

Punjab farmers have fed country since the Green Revolution, now it must stand by us -Raakhi Jagga

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published Published on Oct 3, 2020   modified Modified on Oct 4, 2020

-The Indian Express

Participating in indefinite dharnas at petrol pumps, near toll plazas, even on rail tracks, elderly farmers tell The Indian Express that age is just a number.

A 94-year-old farmer leader cycles 5 km to reach the dharna spot, an 83-year-old says, ‘looking at our united struggle…I think, I will live more’. Their wrinkled faces bear scars of decades spent toiling on fields, but the zeal is intact. Participating in indefinite dharnas at petrol pumps, near toll plazas, even on rail tracks, elderly farmers tell The Indian Express that age is just a number.

DARBARA SINGH (94)

Member

BKU (Dakonda)

Darbara Singh is a resident of Mehal Kalan area of Barnala. He never went to school, and has six and a half acres of farm land which is being handled by his son and grandson. On Thursday morning, Darbara cycled 5 km to reach the toll plaza site on Barnala-Bathinda road, where farmers were staging a ‘pakka morcha’. In the evening, he again cycled 5 km to get back home.

During the dharna, he not only shouted slogans with the vigour of a younger man, but also waved high the flag of BKU (Dakonda). “I eat desi food and I can digest everything. I have been associated with the union since I was 25, when we used to do manual farming,” said Darbara.

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The Indian Express, 3 October, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/india/punjab-farmers-have-fed-country-since-the-green-revolution-now-it-must-stand-by-us-6674989/


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