It was solely two months in the past that 22-year-old Jibin George returned to his house in Thiruvananthapuram after finishing a month-long south Indian solo bicycle journey. However one thing that gripped his coronary heart in these two months has impressed him to set out on one other journey, this time until Jammu and Kashmir, and for a bigger trigger – proclaiming solidarity with the farmers who’re protesting in New Delhi in opposition to the contentious farm legal guidelines.

A second-year resort administration pupil on the Rajadhani Institute of Resort Administration, Jibin hails from Shangumukham. Although it’s not the primary time he has launched into a long-distance cycle journey, he says it’s the primary time he’s doing it for a trigger.

Jibin began his journey on January 7 from Thiruvananthapuram. When TNM received in contact with him, he was crossing a ferry in Azhikode, a coastal village in central Kerala’s Thrissur district. Taking time from his schedule, Jibin talked about his journey and defined the trigger behind it.

“Over the previous two months, I’d been coming throughout loads of experiences in regards to the farmers’ protest on social media. However after I regarded round me, I didn’t see many individuals discussing or speaking about this in Kerala. Even in mainstream media, I felt the protest shouldn’t be coated as extensively correctly. This was the prime purpose I selected to increase my help for the farmers,” Jibin says.

To create consciousness amongst folks, Jibin has hooked up placards in help of the farmers to his cycle. He additionally explains how he tries to speak in regards to the farmers’ protest with the folks he meets throughout his halts within the journey. “I don’t cease and provides any speech, however I discuss in regards to the protest to the folks I meet and in locations the place I cease in the course of the trip,” he says.

“I really feel that the farmers are doing the proper factor in opposition to the contentious farm legal guidelines which can be primarily meant to help non-public gamers. Although what I do gained’t result in any large change, I wish to do what little I can for the trigger. As a result of, what is going to occur if every one in every of us decides to do nothing?” Jibin asks.

The younger man plans to stay to coastal roads until he reaches Goa. “From Maharashtra, I’ll be exploring locations extra totally after which head to the protesting farmers in Delhi,” he says. His journey will finish in Jammu & Kashmir.

Jibin says to this point all alongside the way in which he has been welcomed by folks positively.

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