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Faridabad: As day of the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march approaches, farmers in Punjab and Haryana are egging each other on to stick to their plan even in the face of stiff opposition from the Haryana administration.
While Punjab farmers have reached the state’s borders with Haryana to make arrangements of langar for the jathas that will cross over from these places, farmers in the neighbouring areas of Haryana are reaching out to their counterparts in Punjab to help them with milk supplies, vegetables.
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Faridabad: As day of the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march approaches, farmers in Punjab and Haryana are egging each other on to stick to their plan even in the face of stiff opposition from the Haryana administration.
While Punjab farmers have reached the state’s borders with Haryana to make arrangements of langar for the jathas that will cross over from these places, farmers in the neighbouring areas of Haryana are reaching out to their counterparts in Punjab to help them with milk supplies, vegetables.
Punjab farmers have set up a morcha on Bathinda road in Sangrur’s Khanauri, just 50 metre away from Haryana border.
Across the border in Haryana’s Jind, arrangements are afoot for the protest jatha to make a stopover on way to the Delhi march.
Ruldu Singh, a farmer associated with BKU (Haryana) from Datasinghwala village of state’s Jind district, said, “Villagers from as far as 20 km are reaching out to Punjab farmers at Khanauri border to help them with milk supplies, vegetables.
On Tuesday afternoon, langar from Dhamtan Sahib village gurdwara of Haryana was sent at Khanauri for our Punjab farmers.
We are helping each other because of Kisan Bhaichara and not that we are from the Punjabi community.”
Rampal Sharma, a farmer from Khanauri and member of BKU (Ugrahan), said, “We are around 500 farmers from Sangrur villages.