As rhetoric rises on both sides, Indian farmers at the Singhu camp say they are going nowhere
Puffing out his chest, his lime green turban luminescent in the morning sun, Surinder Singh made it clear he was a man who would not easily be moved. “We will stay here five years, ten years, if we have to,” the farmer said with a steely smile. “As long as it takes.”
A roar of approval greeted his words from fellow Indian farmers who had gathered for breakfast at Singh’s chai stand at the Singhu camp, one of three main protest camps on the outskirts of Delhi. Singh, a small-scale farmer from the northern state of Punjab, is just one of hundreds of thousands to have made Singhu his home since November, living out of the back of his now fully furnished tractor trailer.
