Khalsa Aid Lends Support To Protesting Farmers, Serves Them Free Langar As They March To Delhi

UK-based international Sikh charity, Khalsa Aid has joined various voluntary groups and individuals who are doing their bit to express their solidarity with the thousands of farmers who are marching to Delhi.

As the march meanders its way through Punjab and Haryana to Delhi, Khalsa Aid volunteers have been serving free langar to them at several locations.

Khalsa Aid

Khalsa Aid

The charity has shared photos of their services, including at night as the march moves forward to Delhi.

Khalsa Aid

Khalsa Aid

Even the Members of Kisan Mazdoor Sangarsh Committee have been stocking up essentials in trolleys for their tractor rally towards Delhi.

"We have loaded food material for months and cooking utensils in our trolleys. We're all headed towards Delhi now," said one of the protesting farmers.

"We have brought enough ration to sustain for five to six months in Delhi. We are conducting peaceful agitation. Gurudwaras are sending us food supplies as well," Amandeep, a farmer said.

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Another farmer Robindeep Singh said, "We have arranged food supplies to conduct our protests. We have also arranged warm clothes to face the cold. We are going to stay here in the night."

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Though the protesting framers have reached the Delhi border, it is looking unlikely that they will get easy access to the national capital.

Security beefed up at borders

The Delhi Police had on Thursday enhanced deployment of security personnel, stationed sand-laden trucks and water cannons and used barbed wire for fencing at the Singhu border (Delhi-Haryana border) to prevent the protesters from entering the city. Police were also deployed on Delhi's border with Faridabad and Gurgaon.

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However, two groups of farmers reached near the Singhu and Tikri borders as Delhi Police fired tear gas shells at them to prevent them from entering the city.

Water cannons, teargas used

"We will enter Delhi. We will get these anti-farmer laws repealed. We were welcomed at the national capital by tear gas shells lobbed by Delhi police," said a farmer from Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab who was among those who managed to reach near the Singhu border.

According to the group, they had taken night halts at various points and broke the police barriers in Panipat, Haryana, to reach near the Delhi border.

While a large group of farmers was camping in and around Panipat, about 100 km from Delhi, during the night, a group reached the Sonipat-Delhi border using various routes.

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Another group of Haryana farmers led by State Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Gurnam Singh was also headed towards Delhi after night halt at Panipat.

One more group of farmers had reached near Delhi's Tikri border after entering Haryana from Rohtak district.

A farmer leader leading a group of protesters at Haryana's border with Punjab in Dabwali, said they will break police barriers later in the day to march ahead.