Sanjha Morcha

Farmers charge cell phones from tractors; brought bikes from Punjab Sukhdev Singh from Sangrur added that a backup team has been set up village-wise

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Ravinder Saini
Tribune News Service

Rohtak, December 3

Farmers camping at Tikri-Bahadurgarh have completely prepared from Punjab. For the past five days, they have been charging their mobile phones by using the batteries of their tractors.

Farmers recharge cell phone from a tractor at Tikri-Bahadurgarh border in Jhajjar. Tribune Photo: Sumit Tharan.

They brought their motorbikes to get to one point to another point, since a stretch of 10 km between the Bahadurgarh bypass to Tikri border, Delhi is jam-packed with tractor-trailers, buses, and other vehicles.

They have set up a backup team at their village which ensures the delivery of essential items for protesting farmers.

“Cell phone is the only way, here, to get updates about the agitation, and the direction from top leaders. Since we knew that there would be no electricity connection at the dharna spot to charge cell phones, hence, we created charging points at our vehicles. We charge the phone and power bank at night from the tractor’s battery while the battery is charged by keeping the tractor started. This mechanism is being adopted by the majority of the farmers,” said, a protesting farmer, Jasprit Singh Walia.

Significantly, several farmers are using electricity from poles installed on the highway to charge their phones and power banks.

Magar Singh of Muktsar said, that a 10-km long stretch of the highway from Bahadurgarh to Tikri border was jam-packed with tractor-trailers, buses and other vehicles of the farmers.

“Hence we are using two-wheelers not only to go to one point to other but also buy medicines, eatables and other essential things from Bahadurgarh town as you cannot move in the four-wheelers through road blockade,” he said, adding, that hundreds of farmers had brought two-wheelers with them.

Sukhdev Singh from Sangrur added that a backup team has been set up village-wise.

“We daily update the team members about the agitation and also apprise them of our need about essential items like medicines, milk powder etc. The teams send the village youths here to deliver the items here. The youths then replace those who want to return,” he added.

Amit Nain, a young farmer, informed since the dharna spot was spread over 10 km hence two vehicles were being used to make the farmers updates from the latest development about the agitation.