Farmer protests: 'Pizza langar' at Singhu border in Delhi

A group of five friends set out from Amritsar around on a cold Saturday morning They didnt have much time to organise a regular langar so they collected regularsized pizzas from a Haryana mall and set up a stall at the Singhu borderAround 400 pizzas were distributed within minutes as a huge crowd including the protesting peasants and residents from nearby areas queued upThe pizza langar has since hogged headlines and garnered compliments from different quarters and also brickbats from a certain sectionThe farmers who gave the dough for pizzas can also afford to have one themselves says Shanbir Singh Sandhu who organised the pizza langar with his four friends for the peasants protesting at the DelhiHaryana border against the contentious agrimarketing lawsWe didnt have much time to organise a regular lentilschapatti langar So we came up with this idea says Sandhu who is himself a farmer and an economics student at Guru Nanak Dev University in AmritsarThe farmers have been protesting at several border points into Delhi for over two weeks over their demands to repeal the new legislations which they claim would benefit the corporates and end the traditional wholesale markets and the minimum support price regimeSandhus friend Shahnaz Gill underscored that people get bored eating the same thing everyday We thought we should bring should give them farmers something else to keep their spirits up he saidThe 21yearold student of agriculture says this is first time they have organised a pizza langar expressing happiness that people have appreciated their effortsHowever Sandhu says it is unfortunate and totally unacceptable that some people were ridiculing farmers having pizzasFew people just cannot digest that a farmer can have a car wear good clothes and have a pizza The farmer has moved on from dhotikurta to jeans and Tshirt the 25yearold student says Its about time these people grew upOne of the reasons for organising a pizza langar was to change the publics perception about farmers he addsGill says no one has the right to comment on what a farmer should eat or wearPeople have been calling us socalled farmers Before making any such comment they should come and meet us first he says They will get to know that our thinking is much better than theirsThe five friends have decided to organise another such langar which they say will be better and biggerIt can be pizza or burger or something else too Sandhu saysKeep scrolling to read more newsCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest newsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever