Latest developments - with 25 updates. Monday 21st Dec : Be Informed, Be Active.
1. Bhai Hakim Singh Balad Kalan, who was constantly serving in the protests passed away due to ill health during the Delhi Morcha.
2. Farmer Niranjan Singh of village Bhathal Bhaike of Taran Taran ate poison on Singhu border, Rohtak sent PGI for treatment, got suicide note too. This is not effective way of protesting and against sikhi. Please stop naive farmers doing this.
3. Hardworking activist Manpreet Singh Littan and his family members were returning from Delhi when a road accident took place near Rajpura this morning.
4. Narendra Modi will hold talks with different farmer groups from UP on 25th December. These are not the groups that are protesting. BJP sources say that Narendra Modi will be celebrating Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birth anniversary by talking to different farmers. This is just more photo opportunities. In previous ones in last feed days, BJP said they farmers, but afterwards, they turned out to be BJP activists. Aim is just to show Godhi media that he is engaging the farmers, when in reality he is not engaging them at all.
5. 3000 farmers are headed to Delhi from Nashik under AIKS. The farmers will be joined by another contingent of 7000 at Chandvad.
6. Teams of sikh youth went from Singhu border morcha site to the Tikri morcha to help clean up the site.
7. A blood donation camp was put up at Singhu for the third time in 25 days.
8. Punjabi youngsters have opened second branch of their group ‘Satth’ to provide free library service, newspapers, school and place for discussion. First one was at Singhu border.
9. 10 UK Gursikhs from Sikh Relief and Guru Nanak Gurdwara, Gravesend are walking from Gravesend to 10 Downing St, London to raise awareness for farmers.
10. BJP begins communal polarisation propaganda in Punjab - divide and rule. Today, local BJP leader Subhash Sharma claims 'Hindu dharma increasingly disrespected in Punjab'
11. Farmers are switching off power supplies to Reliance Jio Towers in Punjab. They will fall back on batteries and then to generators but with no one refueling the generators, the Jio network becomes dysfunctional.
12. In other parts of Punjab, locals are not allowing Jio towers to be erected.
13. More videos emerge of the huge protest in Sacramento, California.
14. Wales online shows sikhs in Wales protests.
15. Yorkshire Sikhs protest outside BBC for more coverage on the issue.
16. Farmers protests in Connecticut USA.
17. Many farmers from states in India being harassed by police to stop them joining the morcha.
18. The Kalgidhar Trust ( Baru Sahib ) Announcing free education to the children of martyred farmers up to class 12 in the Kisan Morcha.
19. Forbes magazine - Mukesh Ambani, India’s Richest Person, Loses $6.8 Billion After Reliance Shares Fall On Weak Quarterly Earnings. However he is worth $70 billion
20. Hindustan Times - In Punjab, women take charge of their farms as menfolk take part in protests at Delhi border
21. Large TV screens are now up at the morcha as its 7km long.
22. Facebook and Instagram used the excuse of spam when taking the Kisan Ekta Page. It was restored with in a few hours. But this reasoning makes no sense.
23. Ravish Kumar NDTV keeps presenting and giving farmers a voice, whereas Godhi media Zee TV and Republic TV try any trick to defame the farmers.
24. Many farmers play cricket and volleyball.
25. Huge amount of networking happening between Punjab and Haryana farmers. Many talk of reuniting Punjab to its former size. All realise the damage done to their lands by the divide and rule policies of Delhi.
