Residents of Eight Village Against Government's Move...
Azamgarh, India - Arti Sharma while carrying her toddler in one arm and adjusts her saree with another along with picks up the placards that labelled: “Zameen nahi denge, jaan bhi nahi denge (we will neither give our land nor our lives)."
Her husband Deepak Sharma had made this placard days before he succumbed to a heart attack at 31.
She marches to Khiria Bagh in Uttar Pradesh state's Azamgarh district, in an ongoing protest against the acquisition of land against government for expansion of an airport has been going on for months.
Residents of eight villages of Azamgarh, thousands of people holding protest for their "fight for survival" which is similar like one. When India celebrated its January 26, 74th republic day marks the adoption of its constitution in 1950, hundreds of villagers were protesting at Khiria Bagh Park.
A 90-year-old man, having national flag in his hand and shivering with cold, declared that, "till our last breath we will continue our fight. Until they bring the bulldozer and run it over us we will not move from here."
People were protesting against land acquisition for the proposed international airport at Azamgarh, women left their household chores half-done, children skipped their school, farmers forced to postpone weeding of their crops, all standing together holding tri colour flag waving over their heads.
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