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00:00 What is your name?
00:02 My name is Muneshwar Singh Porteh. I am from Gram Fatehpur.
00:06 Where are we standing right now?
00:08 We are standing at the place where we are protesting.
00:16 Muneshwar ji, today you are cutting down trees.
00:20 You are continuously protesting and cutting down trees. What is your opinion about this?
00:27 The government is fighting the law and the constitution.
00:33 The government is forcing us to cut down the forest.
00:38 I think this is wrong.
00:41 When we don't want to cut down the forest,
00:45 because our lives are incomplete without the forest.
00:48 We use the forest for our livelihood.
00:51 Our livelihood is dependent on this forest.
00:59 I don't think it is right to forcefully cut down the forest.
01:04 Because if we don't get food from this forest,
01:12 our livelihood is incomplete.
01:15 The police have arrested some of the protesters. What is your opinion about this?
01:22 They have arrested our friends since 6 in the morning.
01:27 They wanted to cut down the trees.
01:30 We didn't know that they would cut down the trees.
01:33 But when the police arrested us in the morning, we knew that they would cut down the trees.
01:39 Because they arrested our friends the next time they cut down the trees.
01:44 Who all have you arrested?
01:46 Ramlal Kariam, Anand Ram, Thakur Ram Kusro, Janandan Porte, and some others.
01:57 How many trees have you cut down?
02:00 We were not allowed to go there.
02:03 We couldn't count the trees there.
02:06 But I think they have cut down around 1,000-1,500 trees.
02:11 (laughing)