The video of a young Ambala farmer jumping over the water cannon from his tractor car and turning it off during the agitation of farmers on National Highway 44 went viral on social media. The incident took place on November 25 when farmers marched into the capital defying the water cannon, tear gas in their protest against the three agricultural laws recently passed by Parliament.
While the treatment meted out to farmers heading to Delhi drew severe criticism on social media, including from politicians like Arvind Kejriwal, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Amarinder Singh, the young farmer’s act of jumping from his tractor at the police . vehicle with installed water cannon won hearts.
Navdeep, 26, of Ambala, was hailed as a ‘hero’ on social media when the video went viral amid increasingly intense protest. Meanwhile, Navdeep has been booked for attempted assassination along with the president of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, Gurnam Singh Chaduni. The police have accused them of breaking through the police barricade and trying to run over the policemen with a high speed tractor car. Charges of violation of Covid-19 regulations have also been brought against Navdeep in a case registered at the Parao police station.
Navdeep’s brave act, which has been caught on camera, did not escape the attention of the police deployed there to arrest the protesters. After turning off the tap, he was chased by a policeman who hit him with a cane, but Navdeep jumped onto the tractor that his brother had brought near the police vehicle.
Navdeep has joined agriculture with his father after graduating from Kurukshetra University in 2015 and has said that he believes in the cause of the protest and that farmers have the right to organize peaceful protests. Navdeep’s father, Jai Singh Jalbera, is a local activist farmer.
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