Icon of Farmers’ Protest: Man Who Stopped the Water Cannon

The video of Navdeep jumping on to a water cannon truck from this tractor & turning off its tap has now gone viral.

Farmers from Punjab and Haryana protesting against the Narendra Modi government's farm laws had to face heavy police and paramilitary deployment, water cannons, barricades and detentions in their march towards Delhi.

Despite the obstacles, many farmers continued to march on. Several images became representative of the resilience of the protesting farmers – from an elderly woman protester from Punjab marching on foot to two farmers braving water cannons on the road.

But an iconic video, featuring a young protester named Navdeep Singh, jumping on top of Varun – the water cannon-mounted vehicle – and turning the tap off, helping several protesting farmers who were being targeted by it, is doing the rounds on social media.

How a young farmer from Ambala Navdeep Singh braved police lathis to climb and turn off the water cannon tap and jump back on to a tractor trolley #farmersprotesthttps://t.co/Y9RZJBdD8E pic.twitter.com/NcN0JpMxd2

— Aditya Menon (@AdityaMenon22) November 26, 2020