With AC, fridge, Singhu farmers dig in heels for Delhi summer

Sunday, 13 June 2021Newsdesk

Indicating that they have no intention of vacating the protest site anytime soon, farmers at the Singhu border have erected shelters — sheds with metal frames and bamboo huts — fitted with air-coolers or air-conditioners (ACs) to tackle Delhi’s searing summer.

New Delhi, 13 June 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, even tractor trolleys, which have become a familiar fixture at the border area, have been fitted with air-coolers or ACs.There are also RO water filters and water coolers, and most langars are now equipped with refrigerators. The menu at the langars, which serve hundreds every day, has changed too, with khichdi giving way to roti, and lassi being made available through the day.Jasbeer Singh (38), a farmer from Fatehgarh Sahib, comes to the protest site “in rotation” like most others. He stays in a shed with an iron frame – the metal rods were brought from Punjab – which has an air-cooler and a refrigerator.

Source -The Indian Express