Hunger Strike & Pizzas At Farmers’ Protest Site

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New Delhi: The farmers protesting against the new farm laws are observing a daylong hunger strike on Monday.

The hunger strike from 8 am to 5 pm is part of the farmers’ plan to intensify their agitation, India Today reported.

Addressing a press conference at the Singhu border, farmer leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni said the leaders will observe the hunger strike at their respective places.

However, more than the hunger strike by farmers, what has been hogging headlines is a pizza ‘langar’ (community kitchen) run by a group of five friends from Punjab.

The group led by Shanbir Singh Sandhu had set out from Amritsar on Saturday. The five friends didn’t have much time to organise a regular langar, so they collected “regular-sized” pizzas from a Haryana mall and set up a stall at the Singhu border, The Indian Express reported.

Around 400 pizzas were distributed within minutes as a huge crowd, including the protesting farmers and residents from nearby areas, queued up.

The ‘pizza langar’ has since garnered compliments from different quarters as well as brickbats from a certain section.

Reacting to the criticism, Sandhu said, “The farmers who gave the dough for pizzas can also afford to have one themselves.

“We didn’t have much time to organise a regular dal-chapatti langar… So we came up with this idea,” added Sandhu, who is an economics student at Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar.

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