The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will give free Wi-Fi facility to the farmers protesting against the centre's agriculture laws at Singhu on the Delhi-Haryana border, Punjab co-incharge and MLA from Delhi, Raghav Chadha and co-president of state youth wing Gagan Anmol Mann said here on Tuesday.
Addressing a press conference convened at the party headquarters, Chadha said that AAP, which governs the national capital region, was working as a ‘sevadar’ to provide facilities to the benefactors of the country during the agitation.
He said that it was decided by AAP’s National Convener Arvind Kejriwal to install Wi-Fi hotspots to help farmers make video calls and connect with family members back home, adding that the party had taken this decision keeping in view the fact that farmers sitting hundreds of miles away from their homes were finding it difficult to communicate with their families. “A person needs bread, clothes and a house to live a respectable life. But now the internet has also been added to it. We want the farmers to stay in touch with their families,” Chadha said.
He said that the party had identified a few places and the signal would be within 100 metres of the Wi-Fi hotspot. Chadha said that for the time being hotspot would start at Singhu border and as per the demand of the farmers, it would be provided at other areas also. He said that the Modi-led BJP government was campaigning against the farmers’ movement and now the farmers would be enabled to respond to the BJP's propaganda through social media.