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Standing with the farmer
From the Delhi border protests to Chanot’s water, from flooded fields to the demand for crop compensation: a farmer’s son, beside the farmer.
With the farmer
Where the fields are, we are
Only someone who has touched the soil with his own hands understands a farmer’s pain.
2020–21At the Delhi border against the farm laws; all three repealed
61days of Chanot’s (Hansi) drinking-water movement, ending in victory
₹51,000to the Jua and Dhanana panchayats to drain flood water (Sept 2025)
₹1 lakhof diesel to repair broken farm tracks
2020–21
Against the farm laws
Sept 2020
With thousands of farmers, surrounded the then power minister’s house in Sirsa.
Nov 2020
“Dilli Chalo”: held firm at the Delhi border; fruit, water and langar at the protest sites.
June 2021
A sit-in in Tohana until fellow farmers were released.
19 Nov 2021
All three farm laws repealed.
I too am a farmer’s son; this fight is for our rights. Whatever it costs, I will always be ready for those who feed us.Harsh Chhikara, Sept 2020
Bhiwani: preparing for 26 Jan, Jan 2021
Singhu Border, Dec 2020
Serving fruit and water at the protest site, Nov 2020
With farmer leader Rakesh Tikait, Jan 2021
All three laws repealed: celebrating victory, Nov 2021
Among farmers at the protest site, Jan 2021
A farmer's son with the Tricolour, Jan 2021
Langar at the protest site, Jan 2021
A sea of farmers, Sept 2020
Jind: Bans Mandi sit-in, Sept 2020
Serving farmers who came from Punjab, Nov 2020
With Nihang Singhs, Dec 2020
Slum dwellers thank the farmers, Dec 2020
Speaking from the protest site, Jan 2021
Among elderly farmers, Dec 2020
Preparing for the Bharat Bandh, Feb 2021
Fellow protesters released, June 2021
A decision in the farmers' favour, May 2021
Nights of the protest, Dec 2020
Farmers' unity, Sept 2020Chanot (Hansi), 2026
The fight for water: 61 days, one victory
A Bhakra pipeline was being laid through the village’s fields to Hansi town, but the village was not getting a single drop from it.
61days of peaceful sit-in (16 May – 15 July 2026)
15 Julyagreement in the presence of a Union Minister
AMRUT-2scheme: a separate pipeline for the village
16 May 2026
Villagers began a sit-in for drinking water.
28 May 2026
A farmers’ mahapanchayat; Harsh Chhikara on stage with an ultimatum to the government.
18–22 June 2026
The DC office in Hansi surrounded; a tractor march.
15 July 2026
An agreement in the presence of Union Minister Manohar Lal; the sit-in ended after 61 days.
That people have to struggle for something as basic as drinking water is a shame for the government.Harsh Chhikara to ETV Bharat, May 2026
Chanot: the Bhakra pipeline running through the fields, 3 June 2026
Night meeting at the protest site, June 2026
During the protest in Hansi, June 2026
Chanot: joy among the protesters, June 2026
Dainik Bhaskar, 19 June 2026: the Chanot sit-in
Dainik Bhaskar, 19 June 2026: the drinking-water movement
Dainik Bhaskar, 19 June 2026: the village’s demandFloods and waterlogging, 2025
By boat through flooded fields
In September 2025 he toured the flooded fields of his ancestral village Jua and of Dhanana, reaching Dhanana’s fields by boat. About 100 homes had water inside. He demanded compensation for farmers from the government and gave the two panchayats ₹51,000 to drain the water.
Source: Dainik Bhaskar, Sept 2025.
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