The “pizza langar” has received praise from different sectors.
New Delhi:
A group of five friends left Amritsar on a cold Saturday morning. They did not have much time to organize a regular langar, so they collected “regular size” pizzas from a Haryana shopping center and set up a stand on the Singhu border.
Around 400 pizzas were distributed within minutes as a large crowd, including protesting peasants and residents of nearby areas, queued up.
Since then, the “pizza langar” has made headlines and garnered praise from different sectors, and also from a certain section.
“The farmers who gave the dough for the pizzas can also afford to have one,” says Shanbir Singh Sandhu, who organized the “pizza langar” with his four friends for farmers protesting on the Delhi-Haryana border against the controversy. agricultural marketing. laws.
“We didn’t have much time to organize a lentil-chapatti langar … So we came up with this idea,” says Sandhu, who is a farmer and economics student at Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar.
Farmers have been protesting at various Delhi border points for more than two weeks over their demands to repeal the new legislation, which they claim would benefit businesses and end traditional wholesale markets and the minimum support price regime.
Sandhu’s friend, Shahnaz Gill, stressed that people get bored of eating the same thing every day. “We thought we should bring (the farmers) something else to keep their spirits up,” he said.
The 21-year-old agriculture student says this is the first time they have organized a “pizza langar,” expressing his joy that people have appreciated his efforts.
However, Sandhu says it is regrettable and totally unacceptable for some people to ridicule farmers who ate pizzas.
“Few people just can’t digest that a farmer can have a car, wear nice clothes and eat a pizza. The farmer has gone from dhoti-kurta to jeans and T-shirt,” says the 25-year-old student. “It is time for these people to grow up.”
One of the reasons for organizing a “pizza langar” was to change the public’s perception of farmers, he adds.
Gill says that no one has the right to comment on what a farmer should eat or wear.
“People have been calling us ‘so-called farmers’. Before making such a comment, they should come and meet us first, he says.” They will know that our thinking is much better than theirs. “
The five friends have decided to organize another similar langar, which they say will be better and bigger.
It can also be pizza, hamburger, or anything else, says Sandhu.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is posted from a syndicated channel.)
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