Fazilka lawyer ends life at farmers’ protest site in Haryana
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Fazilka lawyer ends life at farmers’ protest site in Haryana
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BATHINDA: A lawyer from Punjab’s Fazilka district allegedly consumed poison at farmers’ protest site in Bahadurgarh on Sunday morning. He was taken to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, where doctors declared him dead on arrival. Amarjit Singh (63), from Mahalam village was a resident of Jalalabad and had been at the protest site for a week. In a purported suicide note, dated December 18 and addressed to Prime Minister Narenda Modi, Singh wrote that he was sacrificing his life in support of the farmers’ agitation against the new farm laws so that the government is compelled to listen to the voice of the people. “…After Independence, the people expected better future in you as Prime Minister. But with great sorrow and pain, I have to write that you have become Prime Minister of a special group,” he wrote. BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) state secretary Shingara Singh Mann said, “It is happening due to the Centre’s anti-people attitude. The government should provide financial assistance to the bereaved family.”
Publisher
The Times of India
Date
2020-12-28
Coverage
Amritsar