A four-year-old boy was seen helping farmers on the Singhu border, where they are protesting against the new agricultural laws.
The boy named Rehaan, with his father Mehtab Alam, went to the Singhu border to distribute packets of cookies and bananas to protesting farmers on Saturday, ANI reported.
Several people have been supporting the protesting farmers. Mehtab and her son who live in Vaishali have also been visiting the protest site daily and are distributing food packages to them. Mehtab said she has been distributing food packages because it comes from a farmer’s family in Bihar. He said, “There are so many farmers and we feel like they must be facing problems, so we try to go to the place every day and help them.”
He has joined the farmers protesting at the site for the past 10 days. Mehtab’s son Rehaan wanted to accompany his father to the Singhu border, so he handled it well.
The boy shared that he distributed bananas and cookies and that he would like to visit the farmers again. Rehaan can be seen wearing a yellow jacket, holding a packet of cookies in one hand and a banana in the other. The boy is also seen wearing a black mask due to the COVID-19
pandemic.
The report quotes Mehtab, who said he earns Rs 20,000 per month. He is using his salary to buy the food he has been distributing at the protest site. “I am delighted and my father would be proud and happy to see my effort,” Mehtab said.
Farmers have been protesting at the Singhu border in Delhi for almost three weeks. Previously, there were protests at the local level in Punjab, but then the call was given to ‘Dilli Chalo’, publication in which protesting farmers came to Delhi.
Recently, the leaders of around 32 farmers’ unions observed a one-day hunger strike to protest against the new farm laws. 20 farmers are reported to have died during the protest. So far, talks between farmers and the government have been inconclusive.
Not just Rehaan and Mehtab, several others have visited farmers to show their support and those who were unable to visit farmers have registered their support by organizing a demonstration in London, UK. Protesters there made rounds of the Indian High Commission while shouting slogans and honking their horns.
The protest has now entered the 20th on the Singhu border as farmers raise objections against the three agricultural laws passed by the Union Government.
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