With amputated arms & half blindness 78-year-old man is Kisan Morcha fighter since day one
8-year-old man with amputed arms and half blindness, sits at Kisan morcha since 1st day
Said, will never return to his village if the farms laws not repealed
By Harshabab Sidhu
Tikri Border (Delhi), January 12, 2021: The enthusiasm of the farmers is limitless and many surprising as well as emotional pictures can be witnessed on the Delhi borders here amid the Kisan morcha. One such brave farmer was seen at the Tikri Border, who has no arms and he is also blind from one of his eyes.
Nirmal Singh (78), a resident of Hathan village in Sangrur district is protesting with his family and villagers, and staying in the trolley home since the farmers approached towards Delhi on November 26 last year. Nirmal Singh, who is here for the last around 50 days, said he will not return to his village untill the farms laws are not repealed.
“I am sitting here from the very first day of Delhi chalo movement. We are having a ration of approximately six months and I can live here for several months or an year if the protest continues. Now, Haryana farmers are also helping a lot in providing food and milk. When I left my home, I had swear to my villagers that I will return only after the three black laws are repealed, ” he said.
Nirmal Singh shared about the worst incidents of his life and said that he had lost his right eye when he was just 10-year-old as a stick accidentally hit his eye following which his right eyesight lost. He said he was working as an employee in the electricity department but just after 10 months, he lost both of his arms in an incident of 1982 when he was using a chaff cutting machine. “I have spent my whole life like this but had never lost confidence. My villagers kept encouraged me from the beginning. Now, I am working as a cashier of my village and collects the donation from all, said Nirmal Singh with his teary eye.
Speaking about the new farm laws, Nirmal Singh said, “I had three acres of land but following poverty I left with only two acres now. We are nine family members and our life is already in pathetic condition. We takes the land of other farmers on contract. We also have three buffaloes and we earns some money by selling their milk to the villagers” while adding that “the three laws will throw the small farmers like me in the whole darkness. These laws are nothing less than the death warrants. I will survive my life anyhow now but I can’t able to see the future of my children if the laws are not repealed.”