40-year-old Punjab farmer ends life at Singhu border, says Haryana Police

Image Source : PTI Farmers take relaxation throughout their ongoing protest in opposition to the brand new farm legal guidelines, at Singhu border in New Delhi. (Representational picture)
A 40-year-old Punjab farmer, who was collaborating within the protest on the Singhu border in opposition to the Central farm legal guidelines, allegedly took his personal life by consuming some toxic substance on Saturday night, police stated. The farmer, Amarinder Singh, was a resident of Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district. The man was rushed to an area hospital in Sonipat the place he died, stated Sonipat’s Kundli police station’s inspector Ravi Kumar.

Farmers from varied elements of the nation, principally from Punjab and Haryana, have been tenting at totally different border factors of Delhi for over a month now demanding repeal of the three agri legal guidelines, which had been voted by way of in Parliament in September amid sturdy protests by opposition events.

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The three legal guidelines have been projected by the central authorities as main reforms within the agriculture sector that may take away the middlemen and permit farmers to promote anyplace within the nation.

However, the protesting farmers have expressed apprehension that the brand new legal guidelines would pave the way in which for eliminating the security cushion of Minimum Support Price and put off the mandi system, leaving them on the mercy of massive corporates.

The authorities has repeatedly asserted that the MSP and Mandi techniques will keep and has accused the opposition of deceptive the farmers.

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