Another Punjab farmer tries to commit suicide at Singhu border
Mon, Dec 21 2020 06:53:53 PM
Chandigarh, Dec 21 (IANS): A 65-year-old farmer from Punjab tried to commit suicide by consuming poison at the Delhi-Haryana Singhu border in protest against the Centre s farm laws, officials said.
The victim, Niranjan Singh from Tarn Taran, was admitted to the Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences or PGIMS in Rohtak, where his condition is out of danger.
Earlier, Sikh priest Baba Ram Singh committed suicide at Singhu border on December 16 by shooting himself.
He belonged to Nanaksar Gurdwara in Singhra village in Haryana s Karnal district.
New Delhi, December 20
The Centre on Sunday wrote to the protesting farm unions, inviting them for the next round of talks and asking them to choose a date. In a letter to the union leaders, Agriculture Ministry Joint Secretary Vivek Aggarwal wrote, “I request those previously invited protesting union leaders to provide details of their remaining concerns and doubts and suggest a date as per convenience for the next round of talks.”
The earlier five rounds of formal talks between the government and 40 farmers’ unions failed to break the impasse, with the farmers insisting that the Centre’s recent farm laws be repealed.
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NEW DELHI: Farmer unions announced a day-long relay hunger strike on Monday at all protest sites to press for the repeal of the Centre s new agri laws even as Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar is likely to hold talks with the protesting groups in a day or two to discuss their demands.
Farmers in Punjab and Haryana as well as those protesting on Delhi s borders observed Shradhanjali Diwas on Sunday to pay homage to their brethren who died during the ongoing agitation .
Farmers bodies have claimed that over 30 farmers participating in the stir have died due to different reasons including heart attack and road accidents. The farmers performed ardaas (prayer) and in some places they also took out protest marches against the Centre.
Intensifying their agitation against the Centre s new agri laws, farmers on Sunday announced that they will observe a day-long relay hunger strike on Monday at all sites of protest here and halt toll collection on highways in Haryana from December 25 to 27. Thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, are protesting against the laws for the last over four weeks at various border points of Delhi and demanding that the legislations be repealed. Farmers will begin a day-long relay hunger strike on Monday at all sites of protest against the new agri laws. It will be started by a team of 11 members at protests sites here, including the Singhu border, Swaraj India Chief Yogendra Yadav said and added that we appeal to everyone at all protest sites across the nation to participate in the same .
Farmers to observe hunger strike on Monday; halt highway toll collection in Haryana from December 25-27
The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee also wrote to various traders unions requesting their support to the ongoing farmers agitation.
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Farmers talk with Uttar Pradesh District officers next to barricades during a protest at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border in Ghazipur on December 20 2020. (Photo | EPS/Parveen negi) By PTI
NEW DELHI: Intensifying their agitation against the Centre s new agri laws, farmers on Sunday announced that they will observe a day-long relay hunger strike on Monday at all sites of protest here and halt toll collection on highways in Haryana from December 25 to 27.