AMRITSAR: Avtar Kaur, who hails from a farmers family wanted to go to Delhi to join the protesters and express solidarity with them, but she couldn't.
Kaur then hit upon an idea to make her presence felt among the agitators by stitching flags signifying farmers and labourers unity and distributing them free of cost among farmers and their supporters on way to Delhi.
“It’s not just a piece of fabric but it signifies agrarian sector and inspires one and all to protect the interests of ‘anndata’ and motivate youth to take up farming as a profession," said 70-year-old Kaur while talking to TOI on Sunday.
Using high quality cotton synthetic mix yellow fabric, Avtar Kaur and her family have so far stitched around 1800 farmers flags at their home at Malawali village near Amritsar and have distributed them among the farmers and their sympathizers.
“People take pride in hoisting the Kisan Mazdur Ekta Zindabad flag with an image of a farmer ploughing the field with the help of two bullocks and we take pride in stitching them and distributing as part of sewa ( service) she said.
Kaur’s son Kuljit Singh, an advocate by profession, said he and his young son Sahibjit Singh had been to Delhi three times to support the agitating farmers.
“After January 26 tractor march, a large number of common people started going to Delhi to protest against the three agri laws and everyone was looking for flags to hoist atop their vehicles, my mother had already floated the idea so we decided to stitch the flags at home and distribute them free of cost,” said Kuljit. He reluctantly informed that each flag costs them around Rs 60.
Earlier the family used to get the farmer's logo printed from the market but now they have got two screen printing blocks made from the market and print the logo at home.
He informed that the family was making flags under the banner of their NGO Maharaja Ranjit Singh Virasat Manch. He said they picked up yellow colour for the fabric and green colours for the logo since both the colours signifies farming.