Farmer commits suicide at Delhi protest
Kathmandu. 40-year-old Punjabi farmer Amarinder Singh died during the farmers’ protest on Saturday. According to protesters, Singh claimed that he was forced to consume poison as the government denied their demands.
More than 10 thousand farmers have been demonstrating outside the Indian capital, New Delhi, for more than a month now, against new farming laws enacted by the Modi government. Saturday’s protest was held at Singhu along the Delhi-Haryana border.
While Singh was being rushed to the nearby hospital, he expressed a hope that his death would bring success to the farmer’s movement. He died during the treatment at FIMS Hospital, Sonipat.
Since the family of Singh haven’t been traced, his body is likely to be handed over to the protestors on Sunday after the postmortem.
Earlier this month, another body of a 75-year old farmer was found with a suicide note on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border. The note read “Till when shall we sit here in the cold? This government isn’t listening at all. Hence, I give up my life so that some solution emerges.“
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