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PATIALA: A farmer from Nabha block in Patiala district died at Tikri border on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Dhanna Singh, 65, of Tunga village and was vicepresident of BKU (Ekta Ugraha) Tunga village.
Farm leaders claimed that Dhanna and his brother had been at the protest site since the beginning of agitation on November 27. They said he was found dead in the morning and his body was taken to a nearby hospital in Bahadurgarh for post-mortem. “The deceased owned around 10 acres of land but we are still to get complete details about his farm debt,” said BKU (Ekta Ugraha) Patiala general secretary Jaswant Singh. A functionary of the outfit said, “He has left behind his mother Tej Kaur, wife Gurdev Kaur and three married children.”
Protest site at Delhi s Singhu border
A farmer from Tarn Taran district of Punjab Monday allegedly tried to kill himself at the Singhu border area of Delhi.
According to sources, the 65-year-old farmer was first admitted to Sonipat’s civil hospital but was later referred to Rohtak’s Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences. He also wrote a note in support of protesting farmers.
A police spokesperson said that the farmer is currently under treatment and matter is being probed.
The incident comes days after a Sikh preacher Baba Ram Singh died by suicide at the same area. So far, 41 farmers have died in Punjab as well as Delhi since September 15 when protests against farm laws intensified in Punjab and Haryana. Of these, 30 were from Malwa belt alone, six from Doaba belt, two from Majha belt and three from Haryana.
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As the farmers’ stir at Delhi borders entered its 26th day, a farmer from Tarn Taran district of Punjab Monday
allegedly tried to kill himself at the Singhu border. According to sources, the 65-year-old farmer was first admitted to Sonipat’s civil hospital, but was later referred to Rohtak’s Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences. He also wrote a note in support of the protesting farmers.
There are no exact lists of persons who died in Delhi morcha or on the way to Delhi. It is stated that more than 26 out of these died after November 26 in Delhi or on the way to or while coming back from Delhi. Among these victims were two women: Tej Kaur, 80, who died at Budhlada as she accidentally fell on railway track on October 8 and Gurmail Kaur, who died of heart attack during a protest at Bathinda.
Farmers started going to Delhi from November 26 onwards from Punjab and the first death happened on November 27 when Dhanna Singh, 45, of a Mansa village died when a tractor in which he was going was hit by a truck from behind near Bhiwani. His family was given Rs 5 lakh in compensation by the Punjab government.
Six buses ferrying protesters left from Sangrur, 3 from Bathinda, 2 each bus from Barnala, Ludhiana and Mansa, while 1 each left from Patiala and Moga.
Apart from this, over 10 trolleys left for Tikri border Tuesday, informed Sukhdev Singh Kokrikalan, general secretary of BKU (Ugrahan). The initiative is a result of an appeal by the Ugrahan group to families to highlight their stories of farm suicides at the Delhi protest site.
Charanjeet Kaur, from Bhucho Khurd area of Bathinda, has gone to Delhi with a framed picture of her husband, Manjeet Singh, who committed suicide in 2018. Vikkar Singh of Barnala, who left in a tractor trolley, had seen his son, Gurmeet Singh, committed suicide in December 2007.