We have enough ammunition for winters: Protesting farmers

New Delhi:  Taking a sip of tea sitting beside a bonfire at the Singhu border, 52-year-old Makkhan Singh Deol tapped on a carton full of roasted gram and said, “The farmers have enough ammunition for the winters.” Numerous bonfires dot the GT-Karnal road, the “new home” of the protesting farmers who have been staying put at the Singhu border point of the national capital demanding withdrawal of the new farm reform laws.
A trolley containing jaggery, roasted gram and peanuts arrived on Friday morning from Gurdaspur, Punjab. Another containing dates and gajjak reached the Singhu border on Thursday evening to help the protesting farmers fight the biting cold.
“These are to keep us warm. Come and eat. You won’t catch a cold,” Deol tells this reporter. He just finished his tea and was now onto ‘gajar halwa’.
According to Jagjeet Sandhu from Jalandhar-headquartered Shaheed Bhagat Singh Youth Federation, the farmers get tea, kheer and tomato soup twice a day to keep the cold at bay.
Volunteers from a multitude of non-profit organizations have been supplying coffee, tea, milk, jaggery, dates, and peanuts to the farmers in their trolleys and sheds.