Farmers Movement Archive

Learning lessons quite early in life

Tribune News ServiceJalandhar, January 19‘Kisan Ekta Zindabad’, ‘Kaale kanoon vaapis lao’, echoes the resolute voice of 7-year-old Gurshaan Singh Sandhu at the Singhu border. He is the son of Davinder Singh, a farmer from Nawanshahr. Not only farmers and women, but children, too, are marking their presence at the Delhi borders.Lending support to the cause, they have been speaking on stage against the Centre. Gurshaan also raised slogans against the Modi Government.Davinder is at the Singhu border for the last 55 days. He said, “My son used to miss me a lot. I have gone home just once ever since the protests began. I couldn’t meet my son properly then also. So, Gurshaan called me up and told me that he wanted to meet me. He asked me to come but when I told him that I couldn’t, he came here with his mother.”Singh said when he arrived, his son also expressed his desire to speak on the mic so as to make the government ‘hear’ his voice. “I didn’t stop him and it was for the first time that he spoke on any stage and that too on the stage that will script history,” Singh said with proud.He said his son wanted to stay here with him for as much time his father is here.“I have asked my wife to take him back now. I am concerned about his health too,” he said. Tarsem Singh, who is also at Singhu border said it was not about age anymore. “Everyone, even a child now knows about the conspiracy of the Central government. You will see several other kids speaking on stage and venting out their feelings,” he said.Farmer Bhupinder Singh from Hoshiarpur also shared that his 12-year-old son had also raised his voice against the ill-treatment being meted out by the government.“Our children miss us. They often ask us to come back, but they also know that we are here for a long haul,” he said.

The Tribune

2021-01-20