65-Yr-Old Farmer Attempts Suicide At Protest Venue, 2 More Die In Separate Incidents In 24 Hrs
The ongoing protests by the thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab along the borders of Delhi witnessed some dramatic scenes on Monday after a farmer allegedly tried to kill himself at the venue.
The farmer, identified as Niranjan Singh, a resident of Punjab's Tarn Taran who reached Singhu to take part in the protest the previous night, allegedly consumed a poisonous substance during the sit-in.
Singh was rushed to the Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences or PGIMS in Rohtak, where his condition is said to be out of danger.
Singh reportedly said that he took the extreme step government usually act when an incident like suicide occurs and that the cops are expected to book the ones responsible for pushing an individual towards suicide.
This comes as the farmers' protest which is nearing a month now is seeing an increase in the number of those taking extreme steps.
On Sunday, a 22-year-old Punjab farmer, who returned from a protest had died by suicide after consuming some poisonous substance.
Gurlabh Singh, a resident of Dayalpura Mirza village of Bathinda district, had been part of the protest and had returned to his village on Friday.
Another farmer, identified as Kulbir Singh, a resident of Ferozepur district had allegedly ended his life on Sunday. The 50-year-old gone to Delhi on December 11 to take part in the farmers’ protest had returned home on Sunday and ended his life hours later, by hanging, allegedly due to mounting debts.
Earlier,?Sant Baba Ram Singh?a Sikh priest from Nanaksar Gurdwara in Singhra village in Haryana's Karnal district had shot himself dead.
Sant Ram Singh was "deeply hurt" to see the pain and sufferings of thousands of farmers who are braving the cold on the roads for the past several days to demand the withdrawal of the "anti-farmer laws", Haryana Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Gurnam Singh said.?
So far more than 44 farmers have died of suicide, cold, heart attack and road accidents since the protest began.
The Kisan Congress has writtern to Prime MInister Narendra Modi, accusing his government for the death of farmers agitating against the three farm laws and demanded Rs 1 crore compensation to their family members.
"The government should accept the demands of the agitating farmers in the country's interest and also announce Rs one crore compensation to the families of the farmers," Kisan Congress Vice Chairman Surendra Solanki said.
