1. 4 farmers and one lawyer passed away today. Farmers were Gurpyaar Singh, Amrik Singh, Sukhbir Singh, Umarpal Singh.
2. Gurpyaar Singh (61) was protesting at Tikri and had been sent home due to illness has passed away in his village. He was a member of BKU (Dakoda) and was sitting at Tikri for 24days.
3. Amarjit Rai was a Lawyer of the Jalalabad Bar association he committed suicide & left a suicide note blaming midi treatment of farmers. He is the fifty people to pass away today.
4. Cold rain tonight has made conditions very hard for protestors. However, keertan carried on in the rain.
5. Ardas and Sardhanjali given to Mata Gujjar Kaur ji and younger sahibzade.
Ludhiana: Wanted in a murder case of a commission agent (arhtiya), Gharjit Singh Chaudhary, in 2018, the Jodhewal police have arrested accused Ajay Kumar, 30, of Ashiana Colony of Jassiyan village on Monday. According to police, the accused after murdering the victim escaped to Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, where he pursued graduation. Thereafter, he started working as a priest in a shrine in Jandiala Guru.
According to police, the accused Ajay kept visiting his family in Ludhiana several times since 2018, changing his get-up every time.
Additional deputy commissioner of police-1 Deepak Pareek said that the police received information that the accused was living in a shrine in Jandiala Guru, following which the police conducted a raid and arrested him. Three accused of the case, including Gaurav Goru, Yograj and his brother Vishal, had already been arrested by the police.
Farm unions start rotating protesters, reinforcements from villages bordering Pakistan
Majha-based Kisan Mazdoor Sangarsh Committee (KMSC), Border Area Kisan Sangarh Committee (BAKSC) and Jamhoori Kisan Sabha (JKS) have the longest distance to travel for their supply line to Delhi as they are sending activists, ration and funds from villages in Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Pathankot districts. Updated: December 19, 2020 11:00:42 am
Arhtiyas in Punjab began their four-day strike against income tax raids, which they allege were conducted to intimidate them for supporting the farmers stir against the Centre s agriculture laws.
With no hope of an early end to the deadlock over farm laws, farmer unions have started rotating their protesters sitting on dharna at Delhi borders. Unions claim that they neither have dearth of representatives nor funds.
SC suggestion on farm laws: Farmer leaders mum, ‘will react only after consulting legal team’
The protesting farmer leaders welcomed the apex court s move to acknowledge the right of farmers to non-violent protests, but asserted that their agitation will continue until a concrete solution is found. Updated: December 18, 2020 1:07:32 pm
Reacting to the
Supreme Court’s suggestion to the Centre to put implementation of the farm laws on hold, all three platforms of farmer unions in Punjab have said that they will react to it only after consulting their legal team as well as the unions of other states.
Buta Singh Burjgill, President of BKU (Dakaunda), said, “Many lawyers are providing us services free of cost and they have supported our struggle since long. Hence they will study the document of the Supreme Court and accordingly we will be able to comment.” Burjgill is part of the 32 farmer organisations of Punjab who are protesting at a common fro
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