Rajoana, handed the death penalty in July 2007 in connection with the assassionation of then chief minister of Punjab Beant Singh, was to be hanged on March 31, 2012, but a mercy plea was filed before then President Pratibha Patil.
Uniindia: Chandigarh, May 3 (UNI) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Wednesday condemned the union government for taking a U turn on its avowed stand on the release of Balwant Singh Rajoana in the Supreme Court and alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was adopting double standards on this issue.
2. Bhupinder Singh from village Rara passed away.
3. A 55-year-old Barnala-based farmer, Sukhdev Singh Gurm, died of a heart attack while sitting on a dharna outside BJP district president Yadwinder Singh’s house. Gurm was protesting outside Yadwinder’s house since October 1.
4. The morcha is the world’s largest peaceful protest. Now as it feeds hundreds of thousands every day, this morcha has also become Worlds largest Free Kitchen (Langar).
5. The revised approx numbers of protestors at all borders as of today. Note numbers just keep increasing in hundreds and thousands. Singhu- around 200,000, : Tikri- around 125,000 : Ghazipur- 20,000 : Shahjahanpur- around 8000.
6. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, the 87-year-old Harvard University professor, backed the farmers’ protests against three agricultural laws, insisting there was a “strong case” for review of the laws.