BATHINDA: A group of youngsters has set up a makeshift library on Haryana’s Singhu border with Delhi, one of the venues of the farm protest against Centre’s agri laws, and are encouraging farmers to read books on revolutonaries Bhagat Singh, Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna, Ghadarites and Kartar Singh Sarabha.
A basket, in which the books have been kept, is circulated across the venue for people who would want to browse the collection. The service is voluntary and free of cost.
Youngsters who have pitched the stall are from Moga district and are working with left organisation All India Youth Federation (AIYF).
“As the habit of reading literature is on the decline in Punjab, we are reaching out to farmers by trying to make them read books,” said Sukhjinder Maheshri, who coordinates for the stall.
Veerpal Kaur, who is pursuing postgraduation from theatre department of Panjab University, said they wanted people to love books and know more about freedom fighters who liberated the country. Jaspreet Kaur from Badhni in Moga said there were many farmers who were illiterate, but still evinced keen intertest in books and wanted to know more about literature. “We feel we’ll succeed even if some persons get hooked to books. We don’t want anyone to look ar farmers as naive,” said Jaspreet Veerpal said they had been with teh protesters for the past two months and had reached the Delhi border with them on November 27. She added they would stay there till the protest ended and were trying to add books to their collection by purchasing these from Delhi.