Faridkot village to send 20 quintal 'khoya pinnis' for protesters

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, January 3

Milk is brewing in gigantic pots in sprawling kitchen of the Nirmal Dera at Golewala village of Faridkot. Men and women have been working in turns to cook for the past three days.

While residents of the village, having four panchayats, are contributing about 5,000 litres of milk daily, more than 100 residents are boiling milk in open pans to make ‘khoya’ or ‘mawa’, a dairy product.

This ‘khoya’ will be used to prepare over 20 quintals of ‘pinnis’ for the farmers who are protesting on Delhi borders.

“We Punjabis are in habit of consuming ‘khoya pinnis’ in the winter. So when our brethren are sitting on Delhi borders for the past month, braving this bone-numbing cold, we are sending them ‘khoya pinnis’ to help them deal with the winter,” said Manpreet Singh Dhillon, sarpanch of the village.

Over 200 farmers and youths of Golewala village have been camping on Delhi borders for over a month. This village has four prominent farm leaders — Binder Singh Golewala, Gurmeet Singh, Master Lal Singh — of three kisan unions. As all these leaders have mass following in the area, so many farmers and youth of Golewala village are camping near Delhi.

Baba Harpreet Singh, head of the Nirmal Dera, said villagers were contributing milk and other ingredients to make ‘khoya pinnis’ and a team of youth from the village would take these to Delhi in the next two days.

“We are running the kitchen in the dera round the clock,” said Naseeb Singh, another sarpanch in the village.

“The residents are making the ‘pinnis’ following all religious ethos based on the principle of providing food to anyone in need, whether it is the homeless, victims of a natural disaster or protesters far away from home,” said Baba Harpreet Singh.

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‘Sarson da saag’ from Muktsar

Muktsar: Residents of Dhulkot village, under the banner of the Nirol Sewa Organisation, are making ‘pinnis’ and ‘sarson da saag’ for farmers protesting on borders of Delhi.

Kala, a member of the organisation, said, “We are sending 50 quintals of ‘pinnis’ and ‘saag’ for our brothers protesting on Delhi borders.”

Meanwhile, some youngsters have started installing reflectors on tractor-trailers at the Singhu border to thwart any accident during the foggy weather. They have so far installed reflectors on 10,000 vehicles.

Further, some residents of Mehrajwala village here decided to stop the entry of politicians to their village until the contentious farm laws are repealed by the Centre.