âIt wasnât suicide but sacrificeâ: At Haryana gurudwara, hundreds mourn Baba Ram Singh
Associates and followers of the Sikh priest, who died by suicide on Wednesday, say his âqurbaniâ for the farmer protests will pay off.
17 Dec, 2020
Twenty kilometres from Haryanaâs Karnal, in a gurudwara landlocked by green farms, rests the body of Baba Ram Singh. On Wednesday, Singh shot and killed himself at the protest against the farm laws at Singhu on Delhiâs border.
âTo support farmers, some have returned their awards to the government. I have decided to sacrifice myself,
Baba Ram, 65, was a revered Sikh priest based out of Karnalâs Singhra village, where he ran the Ek Onkar Ashram, home to the towering Nanaksar gurudwara. Thousands poured into the ashram this morning to pay tribute to the priest who had made the village his home nearly three decades ago.