Twenty five-year-old Bikramjit Singh, who had entered the Red Fort, disagrees with Amy.
“The Nishan Sahib flag unites us… an identity, as a farming class. We did not touch or damage the Indian flag at the Red Fort. A section of the media is spreading fake news.”
While Bikramjit differed from Amy on the flag, they both agreed upon one thing – media propaganda.
Amy says, “Neither the farmer nor the government won from the Republic Day incident… the one who won was only the section of the media, who was looking to delegitimise us from Day 1.”
Even as another section of protesters tried to distance themselves from the Red Fort violence, the fear of arrests and government crackdown stole the air at Singhu.
However, the atmosphere relaxed by evening.
The queue at the pizza stall grew longer, the music on the tractors got louder, the huddle around the bonfires became bigger, and the evening prayers rung through the loudspeakers.
