Day after violence, crowd seemed less than usual and spirit lower at Singhu border
A day after violence in Delhi, it was business as usual at the Singhu border with protesters speaking on stage one after the other but the crowd seemed less than usual and spirit lower than every day.
While the majority of the protesting farmers admitted that the violence shouldn’t have occurred, they believed a host of reasons led to how the events unfolded including blaming the government sending it’s ‘elements’ to infiltrate the protest and further inciting the already angry and frustrated youth of the movement. Lack of communication was another reason, they said.
Disagreement between Nihang Sikhs and volunteers trying to maintain peace at the protest site was also visible on Wednesday.
Pritam Singh Nihang (60) said he agreed with what happened on Tuesday because the original plan was to hoist the flag at the Red Fort. “If they agreed later to not go there, then it only means they…