Rainstorm rips through farmers’ Delhi camps
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Title
Rainstorm rips through farmers’ Delhi camps
Description
Bathinda: A rainstorm hit farmers’ 103-day-old Delhi protest on Tuesday night, blowing their tents off the ground and tractor-trailers, and drenching their clothes and mattresses. The pavilion soaked, the border sites waterlogged, even the stage of farmer union BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan) at Bahadurgarh’s Pakora Chowk was spoiled, wasting the big effort and money gone into building it. On the Tikri and Singhu borders, too, water leaked into the valuable electronics of many protesters and interrupted the day’s proceedings from the Bahadurgarh platform. “The farmers were asleep when the water entered their tents and the winds tore covers off their heads. Hundreds of volunteers spent hours on Wednesday morning to put the pandal back in order. BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan) secretary Shingara Singh Mann said: “They soaked water with whatever they could fetch and laid the clothes and durries in the open to dry. Even nature’s fury couldn’t break their will.” Farmer union leader Manjit Singh Dhaner said from the Tikri border that the rain damage was extensive and it had taken a lot of hard work to restore things. Belongings of many protesters were damaged.
Publisher
The Times of India
Date
2021-03-11
Coverage
Chandigarh