Protesting Farmers At Ghazipur Set Up Raised Tents, Jute Pads, Tarpaulin To Beat The Heat

The scorching sun doesn't seem to have halted farmers who have been protesting against the three farm laws for the past three months.

Protestors at the Ghazipur border of the national capital are busy making arrangements to beat the heat, with a sudden onset of summers and daily temperatures rising. Tents that were spread on the service lane near the Delhi- Meerut Expressway, have moved under the shade of the flyover and raised to a certain height. Winter arrangements inside the tents are now being replaced with jute pads, chick mats and long dried grass to keep the floor cool.

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Temporary roofs set up

Additionally, the floors of the trolleys are lined with carpets and mattresses and tarpaulin sheets are used to create temporary roofs. The trolleys contain logs, sacks of wheat flour, rice, and pulses, cartons of packaged water, bags of disposable plates and cups, and several boxes of medicine. The villagers, in addition to cash donations, have donated these essential supplies for the protesting farmers.

Farmers protesting against three farm laws at Delhi-UP border in Ghazipur for 117 days set up raised tents, using chic mats, long dried grass & tarpaulin to beat the heat.
"We're gearing up for summer. We won't go back until the black laws are withdrawn," a farmer said yesterday pic.twitter.com/sizeAaEZ0I

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¡°Like winter, we will also face the heat. Arrangements are made for everyone. We have requested the local administration for the connection of electricity. Hopefully, it will be provided. But there is no going back or withdrawing the agitation. We are here to stay,¡± said Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait.

For protection from heat, arrangements have been made for a large tent in front of the stage, so that people can sit there and listen to the speakers. Under this shade, numbers are slowly increasing. Volunteers are providing water bottles to the protestors and requesting them to remain organised.

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Most of them spend the day inside tents and come out only after sunset. Krishna, a farmer from Uttarakhand, is on guard duty at one of the entrances to the protest site. ¡°I am here day and night. If people are leaving, almost the same number is coming in to support the cause.

Donations for fans, coolers being collected

Meanwhile, donations for coolers and fans are being collected. People are contributing, as they want to do ¡®sewa¡¯ and help the protestors, informed Gurudayal Singh, one of the members of the organising committee.

To manage the stress, a meditation centre has also sprung up at the site run by a group of volunteers from the spiritual group called Sahaja Yoga. Scores of farmers are taking part in this. At food counters, water-based cooling refreshments are offered to every passerby.

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Farmers have been protesting at the different border of Delhi since November last year against the three newly enacted farm laws -- Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.