Thirteen-year-old Aryan is now worried about his next meal as thousands of farmers ended their protest and wound up their langars at Delhi's Singhu border.
Like him, there were many who used to get food at the community kitchens set up by farmers and slept in tents pitched by them during the over a year-long protest.
On Saturday morning, a large number of children and local poor, including slum dwellers, had their last breakfast at farmers' langars.
"We used to have our breakfast, lunch and dinner at langars here. This is our last breakfast today at the langar. Now, we have to either cook on our own or look for other options," 13-year-old Aryan, a resident of slums in Kundli, told PTI.
Farmers said they too had developed feelings for local children who used to come to the protest site as they reminded them of their own sons and grandsons.
"These children became part of our protest as they used to come here for food. They reminded me of my grandsons. It was good to have them here. The Almighty will take care of them now," Satwant Singh from Mohali said.
Dwellers of slums generally work at factories or warehouses in the region. The homeless who used to live in makeshift tents set up by farmers were concerned about their lodging arrangements.
Monu Kushwaha, 38, from Supaul in Bihar said before farmers came to the Singhu border to protest, he used to sleep on the footpath but that changed after the stir began last year. "During the farmers' agitation, I used to sleep in one of their tents and have food at langars. All of that will stop now and I will go back to footpaths again," Kushwaha lamented.