Report from Tikari Border: Farmers say - we have only built tents now, if the law is not returned, then we will build pucca houses on the highway

Posted on 30th Dec 2020 by rohit kumar

The Tikari border, which has become the stronghold of the peasant movement, is at the westernmost end of Delhi. The Delhi Metro running on the Green Line crosses this ticking border and enters Bahadurgarh in Haryana. This metro is still running between Delhi and Haryana at its own pace, but the main Rohtak road running just below this metro line has become a temporary camp for the agitating farmers for the past one month.

 

Traffic on this road has been closed since 26 November. There are some alternative routes open from Delhi to Haryana. The Delhi Traffic Police issues this information from time to time. The Delhi-Rohtak road is fully occupied by the farmers and their numbers are steadily increasing with each day.

 

The pillars of the metro standing on this road have now become a temporary address of the agitating farmers. For example, when asked the question of where the anchor is being run by women, one will tell that it is near Pillar number-788. When asked about the newspaper 'Trolley Times' coming out from here, any agitator tells that the office of Trolley Times is near pillar number -783.

 

The peasant movement has become so strong on the ticker border that not only newspapers have started coming out from here but the library has also opened. A theater called the Trolley Theater has started running. The Kisan Mall has been built, where almost everything in need is free for the farmers. Washing machines are installed. Heaters and foot massagers have been installed for old farmers. The temporary encampments of the farmers have started taking shape like a village.

 

In the early phase of the ongoing peasant movement in Delhi, the biggest center was the Singhu border located at the northern end of Delhi. At that time, the Singhu border had accumulated many times more farmers than the Tiki border. Gradually, now the number of farmers on the Tikari border has become almost the same as on the Indus border.

 

"From the very first day, the number of farmers on the Singhu border was high because the batch of farmers from Punjab were reaching via GT Road," says Meetan Man, a farmer from Haryana who was involved in this movement from day one. The Sindhu border was on the same road, so thousands of farmers had reached there simultaneously. In Tikri, farmers have reached more and more indifferent batches. So it took more time for the movement to grow here. '

 

Meet Mann also claims that today there are thousands of farmers on the ticker border. This claim of Meet Mann is also not an exaggeration. The gathering of farmers on the Delhi-Rohtak road from the Tikari border is about 20 km long. From Tikri to Rohad toll plaza near Sapla, tractor-trolleys of farmers stand.

 

One of the reasons for the gradual increase of the movement along the Tikari border is that there are more number of farmers from Haryana who have joined the movement at different times. In districts like Jhajjar, Rohtak, Jind, Kaithal, Fatehabad, Hisar, Sirsa, Bhiwani, and Charkhi Dadri in Haryana, the ticker border is closer to Singhu than all other farmers. So they are gathering here.

 

Talking about the number, today almost as many farmers have gathered on the ticker border as on the Singhu border. Even then, many differences can be seen at these two centers of movement at first glance. The arrangements are more on the Singhu border than on Tikri. Their management is also being done in a better way. For example, the security of the entire area from night to the cleanliness of the roads, the system that appears on the Singhu border is not on the same border.

 

Gaurav Singh, a farmer from Rajasthan, says the Delhi government also has a big role in the clutches of the ticker border. Arvind Kejriwal may be talking about being with the farmers, but there is no help from his side. Only two mobile toilets have been installed by the Delhi government here. Cleanliness is not being done here. The municipalities of Haryana are doing far better. There is Delhi on one side of the road and Haryana on the other side. In the areas of Haryana, the municipal corporation is present-day and night for cleaning.

 

Gaurav says, "These clutter are also slowly getting eliminated and the farmers are arranging everything. Somehow in the terrible cold, they are doing everything they can to continue their fight. They have come with a pledge that they will not return in any condition before the law is brought back, no matter how much time it takes. Right now the farmers have built only tents on the highway, if the government does not withdraw the law, then the farmers will build pucca houses here. '