With the continued farmers’ protest at Delhi borders in opposition to the Centre’s three farm legal guidelines being termed as ‘historic’ in some ways, a bunch of volunteers from Ludhiana have taken a ‘green’ initiative to go away behind a legacy for the approaching generations.
Volunteers from the staff of ‘Tractor2Twitter’ — a web-based platform encouraging the youths to make use of Twitter and take the voice of the farmers to social media — have planted saplings at Singhu border.
They have additionally given a name to farmers who’re arriving to hitch the protest, to carry alongside at the very least one sapling, and plant it on the protest spot the place they park their tractors.
Speaking to The Indian Express, Amandeep Singh Bains, one of many volunteers from Tractor2Twitter (@Tractor2twitr) mentioned that they’ve already planted 10 saplings at Singhu border as a symbolic gesture and work has begun to encourage farmers to do the identical.
“This agitation by farmers of Punjab and Haryana, against the central government, is historic in many ways. It is a great act of resistance and a perfect example to show our coming generations that peaceful demonstrations are the most powerful in a democracy. Our motive is to leave behind a legacy which lives forever. In future, whenever people especially youths should pass from this site, they should see something which should remind them of the agitation which started from here at Singhu border and the way it got scripted in the history of our country. Singhu border is witness to a historic farmers agitation and it should be preserved in some way,” mentioned Bains.
Ten saplings had been planted within the presence of aged farmers on the protest website.
Bhavjit Singh, an IT skilled from Australia and co-founder of Tractor2Twitter, mentioned saplings being planted at Singhu border would turn out to be ‘morche di nishaani’ (a logo within the reminiscence of the protest). “Rather than constructing any memorial or a concrete structure, we thought of planting trees because nothing can be better than a green memorial which would live for decades to come,” mentioned Bhavjit.
On the necessity to begin a platform like ‘Tractor2Twitter’ which raises the voice of farmers on Twitter, Bains mentioned, “In current times, Twitter is one of the most powerful online mediums and we thought of creating a Twitter account (@Tractor2twitr) where youths can raise concerns of the farmers. Currently our account has more than 26,000 followers and daily we post a hashtag for farmers to follow.”
